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Twelve-year-old Summer finds a home with relatives after her mother dies. After Summer's Aunt May dies suddenly, Summer and Uncle Ob try to establish contact with her spirit, only to learn that it lives within each of them.
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Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Grief, Death, Aunts, Aunts in fiction, Grief in fiction, West Virginia in fiction, Death in fiction, Newbery Medal, Joy and sorrow, Children's fiction, West virginia, fiction, Grief, fiction, Death, fiction, Readers (Secondary), Criticism and interpretation, Girls, fiction, Mystery and detective storiesPeople
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Table of Contents
Missing May -- Cynthia Rylant
World is not a pleasant place to be -- Nikki Giovanni
His just due -- Cynthia Rylant
Story that could be true -- William Stafford
Valentine for Ernest Mann -- Naomi Shihab Nye
Mother -- Grace Paley
Girl who married a ghost -- Grace Paley
Crossing the bar -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living.
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