All the way home

Description:

In 1941, circumstances bring together Brick, a boy from New York's apple country, and Mariel, a young girl made shy by her bout with polio, and the two make a journey from Brooklyn back to help Brick's elderly neighbors save their apple crop and to help Mariel learn about her past.

subjects: Girl poliomyelitis patients,  Fiction,  The Forties (20th century),  Apples,  Baseball fans,  Self-acceptance,  Poliomyelitis,  Friendship,  Children's fiction,  Friendship, fiction,  Self-acceptance, fiction,  Brooklyn (new york, n.y.), fiction,  People with disabilities, fiction,  Food, fiction

Places: New York City Brooklyn,  Brooklyn,  New York (State),  Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.),  New York