Broken Summer
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Summer vacation is usually a wonderful time for nine-year-old Billy. Not this year, however. After Billy is injured in an accident, he has to spend the rest of his summer with two broken legs. Coping with the trauma of the accident and the disappointment over his seemingly ruined summer is difficult for him, but when he rediscovers a forgotten storybook he received from his grandfather, he finds that this may not be a broken summer after all.
ONC 2020 Novella
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