Lily’s Crossing

Children's Friendship Books

Author: Patricia Reilly Giff

Author Patricia Reilly Giff’s Newbery Honor-winning Lily’s Crossing is now available for the first time in paperback!Every summer Lily and her father go to her family’s house in Rockaway, near the Atlantic Ocean. But the summer of 1944 is different. World War II has called Lily’s father overseas, Lily’s best friend Margaret had to move with her family to a wartime factory….Read More

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