Must Be Friends

Some friendships aren't chosen—they're forged to survive.
Summer 1927. Jo's mother is in prison, her stepfather's temper has left more than one bruise, and every grown-up in her Midwestern city seems to be looking the other way. Sam is an orphan riding the rails, safer dressed as a boy than as the girl she is. They meet on a vacant-lot baseball field in caps and knickers, hiding who they are from the boys around them—and from the men who think girls are theirs to use.
One violent night forces...