Wasatch County Library

"When a child loses the person in his life that he loves more than anything, he uses his cape as protection from his grief. On the day of the funeral, he uses it to block out the pictures and stories people share, refusing to acknowledge the memories that keep bubbling up. He won't think about them. He doesn't want to. He avoids the memories, until he no longer can. He remembers then. Their laugh, their smile, the moment they gave him the cape. The...

"First zit ... first bra ... first kiss. A twelve-year-old adopted girl shares her fears and dreams with the mother who left her at an orphanage eleven years ago."--Title page verso