resilience and home always being where the heart is

she held a press conference to explain to journalists that he acted “in sound mind

shimmering and dreamy

for the lie to work

he was designed to fit into the pocket of a soldier’s jacket

The Sunflower Boys: A Novel Teen & Young Adult Fiction about Homelessness & Poverty resilience and home always beingA poignant coming of age story with the sensitivity and haunting power of What Belongs to You and Swimming in the Dark, about a young boy wrestling with his sexuality as war breaks out in modern Ukraine. In many ways, twelve year old Artems life in Chernihiv, Ukraine, is normal. He spends his days helping on his grandfathers sunflower farm, drawing in his sketchbooka treasured gift from his father, who works in Americaand swimming in the river with