15 year-old Iris is sent to spend the summer with a doctor and his mother. Her father is a shoe salesman who is going to be too busy opening his new store in Kansas City to be bothered with Iris. So, off she goes to live with Avery and his mother Mrs. Nesbitt.
At first, Iris is indignant. After all, she feels as if her father doesn't care and she's not so sure about leaving with a strange family. But, things change for the better. Iris and Mrs. Nesbitt grow close as they discover their love for each other and for the understanding of the similar pain they have both felt over loss of loved ones.
Iris also is growing in her love for a young man back home-Leroy-who she exchanges letters with over the course of the summer.
When Iris is told her father is getting married and that he and his new bride will be running the shoe store she is saddened. It grows worse after the death of her father. He is killed by a train.
Add to the mix an abused and pregnant young neighbor and you have a wonderfully told story.
Somewhere there is a sensitive young teenage girl who can wrap her heart and her mind around this sensitively told story.
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