One Alley Summer: A Novel of Friendship and Growin Polly Young-Eisendrath • Handcrafted from sustainably harvested

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One Alley Summer: A Novel of Friendship and Growin Polly Young-Eisendrath • Handcrafted from sustainably harvestedThe summer before middle school is a time of anxiety and change. A pitch perfect novel in verse about one girl's wish to simultaneously break free and to belong. In the summer before her first year of middle school, word chanting, rope skipping Phee skips her way to imagined fame, writes down her innermost secret thoughts from the safety of a treehouse, and imagines in horror that her new classmates will eat her alive. Suddenly, her well worn alley