Title: Apple and Rain
Description: When Apple's mother returns after eleven years of absence, Apple feels almost whole again. In order to heal completely, her mother will have to answer one burning question: Why did she abandon her? But just like the stormy Christmas Eve when she left, her mother's homecoming is bittersweet. It's only when Apple meets her younger sister, Rain-someone more lost than she is- that she begins to see things for how they really are, allowing Apple to discover something that might help her to feel truly whole again.
Subjects: Dysfunctional families, Sisters, Mothers and daughters, Juvenile fiction, Family problems, Poetry, Fiction, Children's fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Sisters, fiction, Family life, fiction, Poetry, fiction