Growing up in rural Indiana, with a father diagnosed with brain cancer when she was eight-years-old, Colette finds hope in the innocence of childhood. While realizing the stark reality of life, she navigates hospital hallways and learns how to love. Told in the narrative style of the poetic novel, which seems to fly off the library shelves, Colette discovers hope for tomorrow, comes to peace with memories of her father, and discovers her own special...

Seven days before summer vacation begins, fifty-seven days before her seventeenth birthday, Noelle finds her father's camera on her bed. Her father died seventeen years ago, seven months before she was born. Her mother is still so heart-broken that she is only able to share the details of their life together in bits and pieces, snapshots. An avid photographer, Noelle finds herself rising early, despite it being summer vacation and prime-time to sleep...