Criss Cross: A Newbery Award Winner – An Authentic Novel of Friendship and Growing Up for Children (Ages 8-12)
<p>She wished something would happen.</p><p>Something good. To her. Checking her wish for loopholes, she found one. Hoping it wasn't too late, she thought the word <em>soon</em>.</p><p>Meanwhile, in another part of town, he felt as if the world was opening. Life was rearranging itself; bulging in places, fraying in spots. He felt himself changing, too, but into what?</p>So much can happen in a summer.