An NPR Backseat Book Club Selection
An E. B. White Read-Aloud Honor Book
An Arizona Grand Canyon Reader Award Winner
An Indiana Young Hoosier Book Award Winner
A Minnesota Maud Hart Lovelace Award Winner
A Connecticut Nutmeg Book Award Winner
A Nebraska Golden Sower Book Award Winner
An Iowa Children's Choice Book Award Winner
A Massachusetts Children's Book Award Winner
Nominated for 17 State Book Awards
"Even the accident toward which this novel is inevitably headed is no accident; it is as masterfully set up and skillfully concealed as the rest of this riveting story." –John Irving
"This powerful and emotional story is likely to spur discussion."–
Publishers Weekly "No one is perfect in this feel-good story, but everyone benefits, including sentimentally inclined readers."–
Kirkus Reviews "Compelling. . . . Readers will find much to ponder on the power of forgiveness."–
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