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Kit is a typical teenage girl happily engaged in school and family life. She and her younger brother, Buddy, are deeply bonded. Despite their age difference, they're connected by a love of baseball and math. Then Kit learns that Buddy has been diagnosed with cancer. The poems that follow capture both devastating loss and the beginnings of recovery in spare, lyrical verse that throbs with raw emotional power.

Fall is an important time of year on a ranch, mostly because it means that winter is coming soon! And, on Hank’s ranch, that means that the cake house is about to be filled with bags of feed to get the cattle through the long frozen days ahead. Unfortunately, this particular feed-delivery is accompanied by a town mutt named Roy, who gets Hank into big trouble with some local yellow jacket wasps.

Spektakl' po znamenitoj skazke Gansa Hristiana Andersena «Kaloshi schast'ja». «- Nuzhno tebe skazat', – skazala Feja schast'ja, - chto u menja segodnja den' rozhdenija, i v chest' jetogo sobytija mne dali paru kalosh, s tem, chtoby ja otnesla ih ljudjam. Jeti kaloshi obladajut odnim zamechatel'nym svojstvom: togo, kto ih nadenet, oni mogut mgnovenno perenesti v ljuboe mesto i ljubuju jepohu – stoit emu tol'ko pozhelat', – i ot jetogo on pochuvstvuet sebja sovershenno schastlivym.»