Melissa Mather Bücher

Serialized in The Saturday Evening Post, condensed by Readers Digest in English and Spanish, this story of survival and stubborn faith in the future is back in its entirety to delight a whole new generation of readers. “A triumph of courage illuminated by love” —Lee Pennock Huntingon. Best of all, it’s all true. It really happened.

This is essentially an old-fashioned novel, because it is nourishing. It leaves a good taste in the mouth. It is spiced with wit and laced with vitality—everybody in it is glad to be alive—yet its basic ingredients are those two fundamental to a good story: courage and love. This is a book to read aloud, to lend to friends, to reread, and to treasure. One Summer In Between is a vital story, rich with detail. Harriet Brown is mischievous, thoughtful, wicked, pert, acidly charming, and made, certainly, of the stuff-that-endures.—Gwendolyn Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet