Fourteen-year-old Angie and her mom are poised at the edge of homelessness… again. The problem is her little sister, Sophie. Sophie has an autism-like disorder, and a tendency to shriek. No matter where they live, home never seems to last long. Until they move in with Aunt Vi, across the fence from a huge black Great Dane who changes everything. Sophie falls in love immediately, and begins to imitate the “inside of the dog,” which, fortunately, is a calm place. The shrieking stops. Everybody begins to breathe again. Until Paul Inverness, the dog’s grumpy, socially isolated owner, moves to the mountains, and it all begins again. Much to Angie’s humiliation, when they’re thrown out of Aunt Vi’s house, Angie’s mom moves the family to the mountains after Paul and his dog. There, despite a fifty-year difference in their ages, Angie and Paul form a deep friendship, the only close friendship either has known. Angie is able to talk to him about growing up gay, and Paul trusts Angie with his greatest secret, his one dream. When the opportunity arrives, Angie decides to risk everything to help Paul’s dream come true, even their friendship and her one chance at a real home—the only thing she’s dreamed of since her father was killed. A place she can never be thrown out. A place she can feel she belongs. By the bestselling author of DON’T LET ME GO, WHEN I FOUND YOU, and WALK ME HOME, WHERE WE BELONG is a poignant, heartfelt, and uplifting story about finding your place in the world, no matter how impossible it seems.
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Catherine Ryan Hyde
Catherine Ryan Hyde nasceu em abril de 1955 e escreveu mais de trinta livros ao longo da vida. Em suas inúmeras viagens, fez trilhas por Yosemite e pelo Grand Canyon, escalou o Monte Katahdin, viajou pelo Himalaia e percorreu a Trilha Inca de Machu Picchu. Para documentar as experiências, Catherine tira fotos e grava vídeos que compartilha com seus leitores e amigos na internet. Um dos seus livros de maior sucesso é Pay It Forward, que inspirou o filme A Corrente do Bem (2000), com Haley Joel Osment e Helen Hunt no elenco. A obra foi escolhida pela ALA para sua lista de melhores livros para jovens adultos, e ganhou tradução em mais de 23 idiomas. A filosofia compartilhada no livro a levou a fundar e presidir (entre 2000 e 2009) a Pay It Forward Foundation. Como oradora pública profissional, já palestrou na National Conference of Education, falou duas vezes na Cornell University, se reuniu com membros da AmeriCorps na Casa Branca e dividiu um palco com Bill Clinton. Mora na Califórnia, escreve com regularidade em seu blog e divide seus dias com Jordan, Ella e Soul, seus animais de estimação. Saiba mais em catherineryanhyde.com.
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