Review by Jill Williamson
Lily is watching her baby brother when she gets a call from her other brother, Michael. Their father just dropped eight-year-old Michael off at the airport in Baltimore without money or a plane ticket. Michael begs Lily to help him get home and to keep what Dad did a secret. Lily risks everything to rescue her brother. She can’t believe that her dad would abandon his son in such a way. And after everything that Dad said and did to Michael, how can Michael still love him?
This book was excellent. Cooney does a masterful job of getting into three sibling’s very different views of their parent’s divorce. I was drawn into the mystery of what was going on, and then to the characters as they struggled through life and their relationship with their father. I loved how Cooney ended it all. Touching and through-provoking. Highly recommended.
Age Range: 12 and up
Genre: Contemporary
Part of a Series: no
Pages: 183
Publisher: Waterbrook
Released: 2006
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