Katharine Jay Bacon
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Katharine Jay Bacon
Though fifteen-year-old Finn’s badly burned hand and broken leg are healing, the traumatic effects of the small-plane crash that killed his parents and sister have left him unable to speak. Psychiatrists have told Finn that to regain the power of speech he must relive each step of the tragedy. Now living with his grandmother on her Vermont farm where he has vacationed all his life and which he loves, he cannot make himself face the horrors of the fatal accident.
Renewing his friendship with Julia, nearly fourteen, helps. A nearby neighbor, she comes each day…
