One Alley Summer: A Novel of Friendship and Growing Up

Heart of a Samurai"I love this book so much I want to live in it."—Margi Preus, Newbery Honor winning author of

The 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 h...