Miriam Spitzer Franklin

Last spring, Pansy chickened out right before going to spring break camp, even though she’d promised her best friend, Anna, they’d go together. It was just like when they went to get their hair cut for Locks of Love, and only one of them walked out with a new hairstyle.

But Pansy never got the chance to make it up to Anna. At camp, Anna contracted meningitis and a dangerously high fever, and she hasn’t been the same since. Now all Pansy wants is her daring best friend back—not the silent girl in the wheelchair who has to go to a special school.

When Pansy discovers that Anna is getting a surgery that might cure her, she realizes this could be her chance—she’ll become the friend Anna always deserved—even if it means taking risks and trying new things (like those scary roller skates).

Pansy’s chasing extraordinary, hoping she reaches it in time for her friend’s triumphant return. But what lies at the end of her journey might not be exactly what she had expected—or wanted.

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A beautiful story about friendship and learning to be strong when things get hard.

Last spring, Pansy chickened out right before going to spring break camp, even though she'd promised her best friend, Anna, they'd go together. It was just like when they went to get their hair cut for Locks of Love, and only one of them walked out with a new hairstyle.

But Pansy never got the chance to make it up to Anna. At camp, Anna contracted meningitis and a dangerously high fever, and she hasn't been the same since. Now all Pansy wants is her daring best friend back--not the silent girl in the wheelchair who has to go to a special school.

When Pansy discovers that Anna is getting a surgery that might cure her, she realizes this could be her chance--she'll become the friend Anna always deserved--even if it means taking risks and trying new things (like those scary roller skates).

Pansy's chasing extraordinary, hoping she reaches it in time for her friend's triumphant return. But what lies at the end of her journey might not be exactly what she had expected--or wanted.

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Octavia E. Butler

New paperback copy of Kindred. Never read. Bought with good intentions of reading it, but it’s been sitting here waiting for you.

A Good Morning America 2021 Top Summer Read Pick The visionary author’s masterpiece pulls us—along with her Black female hero—through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana's life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.

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