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Twelve-year-old Bea Gelman and her best friend Frankie are planning the BEST SUMMER EVER at Camp Shalom--a sleep-away camp. But at the last minute, Frankie bows out, leaving painfully shy Bea on her own. Just talking to strangers causes Bea to break out into ugly, blotchy hives. As if the hives weren't bad enough, Bea gets pranked by a couple of mean girls and is betrayed by someone she thought was a new friend. Bea has had enough She decides to spend her summer in the infirmary far away from everything that's stressing her out. No more boys (including her crush, Jeremy), no more horrible mean girls, and no more fake friends At the infirmary, Bea meets Harry, a boy facing challenges way more intense than stress breakouts. Inspired by Harry's strength and positive outlook, Bea decides to face her fears--in a big way. The Sun Will Come Out is a funny and heartwarming account of a shy girl's first summer away from home, where she learns she really can do anything and that silver linings c

海嘯奪走了村莊，也奪走了Makio的父親與聲音。某日，鄰居Mr. Hirota在自家庭園裡建起一座神秘電話亭，沒有線路、無法撥通，卻吸引了愈來愈多村民。Makio漸漸明白，這電話亭成了通往思念之地的風之話筒。《The Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota's Garden》以平靜內斂的敘述，搭配版畫風插圖，描繪悲傷如何被傾聽、被理解。靜靜訴說一段來自日本真實故事的療癒之旅。Everyone lost someone the day the big wave came.This gorgeously illustrated picture book tells the story of a young Japanese boy who loses his dad in a tsunami.★ “Smith spins a quietly moving narrative...Wada’s large-scale woodblock style illustrations are a perfect complement to the story’s restrained text...The graceful way in which this book handles a sensitive and serious subject makes it a first purchase."—School Library JournalWhen the tsunami destroyed Makio's village, Makio lost his father . . . and his voice. The entire village is silenced by grief, and the young child's anger at the ocean grows. Then one day his neighbor, Mr. Hirota, begins a mysterious project—building a phone booth in his garden. At first Makio is puzzled; the phone isn't connected to anything. It just sits there, u