Stand Tall (r/i)

Teen & Young Adult Friendship Fiction

Author: Joan Bauer

Tree, a six-foot-three-inch twelve-year-old, copes with his parents’ recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school…..Read More

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