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Gary Paulsen introduces the reader to Finn, a fourteen-year-old loner living with his father and his dog, Dylan. He has friends but defines Matthew as his only true friend, despite the fact that they aren’t anything alike.
Summer has arrived and Finn’s plans are to spend the next three months reading as many books as he can, staying on his front steps and avoiding people. Then Johanna comes to house-sit next door. She asks him to sign her journal and Finn feels “light, warm in that spot just above my stomach.”
He doesn’t know it but his summer plans and his life are about to change. Not just his life but the lives of people he knows and some he doesn’t know. Johanna’s enthusiasm for life in the face of terminal cancer infects everyone from Finn and Matthew to family, friends and strangers.
--2011-2012 Golden Sower Award Manual
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