Returning from a pre-Christmas visit with relatives, nine-year-old Rosemyn, her parents and six-year-old sister Phoebe are in a terrible car accident. This moving novel chronicles the weeks she spends in the hospital recuperating, along with her badly injured father and sister. It also deals honestly with the family's gradual acceptance of their mother's death. Honor Book, 1996 CCBC Batchelder Award Discussion (Ages 9-13)

The true story of a young girl's struggle to come to terms with a tragedy. This sober narration reveals the private voice of a girl as she copes with the aftermath of a car accident: her mother's death, the injuries of her father and sister, and her own grief, anger, and fear of the future.