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The Someday Letters

By Sikho

Eleven-year-old Junie Alvarez has a script she says whenever someone asks about her dad: he's working construction up north. It isn't true. Her father is serving eighteen months at Ridgeline Correctional Facility, and since moving in with her grandmother in the small coastal town of Cobalt Cove, Junie has gotten very good at the lie. Then she finds the Lantern House — a boarded-up lighthouse keeper's cottage on the bluff where, for over fifty years, kids in town have quietly left unsent letters to whoever they're missing. Someone has been reading them. Someone has even been writing back, signed only with the initials M.K. As Junie and two new friends — each carrying an absence of their own — chase down who the Keeper really is, Junie is also learning to carry the truth about her dad: the fifteen-minute monitored phone calls, the two-hour drive to a visiting room, and the fact that a person can be sorry and still have done something wrong, and that both of those things can be true of someone you love at the same time. The Someday Letters is a mystery with real heart, for the millions of kids who know exactly what it's like to have a parent who's "away" — and for every reader who has ever needed a place to put down something too heavy to carry alone.

184 minutes estimated reading

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