A Gift from Above : Author’s Edition

About A Gift from Above : Author’s Edition

Eight-year-old Celia Meyers knows exactly what she wants: a baby sibling. When her wish finally comes true, she can hardly wait. While counting down the months until the baby arrives, she spends her summer dreaming up the perfect future with her best friend Tommy and filling a wooden box with wishes, promises, and plans before burying it beneath their tree house.

Life couldn’t be better. But as the months pass, Tommy begins changing in ways she doesn’t understand, her parents seem more distant than ever before, and suddenly nothing is turning out the way she dreamed it would. The dream box was supposed to hold the future.

Not leave it in pieces. A Gift from Above is a coming-of-age story about friendship, family, and the moments that shape us long before we understand why. Originally published in 2009 when H.

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