"Harriet Flores feels alone, bored, and trapped in her familys new apartment. Her camp friends arent replying to her postcards, and shes trying not to think about looming trips to the doctor. As the hot Chicago summer rolls on, she uses her imagination to escape the dull days for better and for worse. Harriet fibs in her postcards, decides her mail carrier is evil, and wonders if the floor above her is haunted. She also spends times with her neighbor, Pearl. Pearl sees a storyteller in Harriet, even if Harriet pushes Pearls book away and wont talk about her life either. With Pearls help, Harriet just might see the power inside storiesand learn to share her own. In 1996 Chicago, thirteen-year-old Harriet Flores, living with boredom, loneliness, and a chronic illness, lets her imagination run wild--with mixed results--and learns about the power of storytelling.
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