The Last Drop of Sunshine

Guilou lives on the top floor of a large apartment building; from her bedroom window high in the sky she can hear the buzz of the city and the musical voices of her neighbors' accents of Haitian, Spanish, and German, as well as plain ol' English. The sounds of her neighborhood make her happy. On Saturdays Guilou is all smiles because her mother does not have to work, and she and her mother can play the "sunshine bubble" game. But when Guilou's bottle of sunshine bubbles is nearly empty, she...