Wednesday, July 13, 2011

June Bug / Chris Fabry / 326 pages / Christy Award Nominee 2011

Nine year old June Bug and "her father", John, are American nomads.  They travel the country in an RV - their home.  Engine trouble strands them in Colorado on a Walmart parking lot.  Sheila, a widow and Walmart employee, "takes to" June Bug, and offers her home and meals to the girl and her father. After watching a news story about a missing girl and the finding of the car from which she supposedly disappeared, John decides he has to return to West Virginia to clear things up.  June suspects that she is that missing girl because she had seen an age-advanced picture on a missing child poster at Walmart that looks just like her.  Who is her Mom?  Who is her Dad?  What happened to her?  This heart-warming story is hard to put down.

"It doesn't matter where you live as long as you're with people you love."
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the things that take your breath away."

Christy Award Nominee 2011

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