With her father away at war to fight Hitler, a young girl gains strength by joining her community in battling polio in this Parents' Choice Silver Honor Book based on the 1944 epidemic and the "Miracle of Hickory" Hospital in Hickory, North Carolina. Ann Fay Honeycutt accepts the role of "man of ...
He marched out ahead of me, and I followed his trail of cigarette smells. I told myself I didn’t care if he was mad. What was he to me? Finally, after we were back in Brookford and had crossed the swinging bridge and were pulling our books out of the hollow log, he decided to talk to me. “Bledsoe...