A Month of Sundays by Ruth White

A Month of Sundays by Ruth White
Farrar Strauss Giroux
2011
168p.

In the summer of 1956 while her mother is in Florida searching for a job, fourteen-year-old April Garnet Rose, who has never met her father, stays with her terminally ill aunt in Virginia and accompanies her as she visits different churches, looking for God.

You'll Like It Here (Everybody Does) by Ruth White

You'll Like It Here (Everybody Does) by Ruth White
Delacorte Press
2011
258p.

Forced to flee a small North Carolina town when the neighbors suspect they are aliens, sixth-grader Meggie Blue and her family leave Earth and arrive in Fashion City, where individuality is punished and the greatest crime is being "grossly unique."