![]() ![]() Suddenly, Mama and Daddy are arguing like they did before the divorce, and even the doctors at the hospital don't know how to help Peaches get better. G-baby is so preoccupied with earning Tangie's approval that she isn't there for her own little sister when she needs her most. G-baby misses her best friend back in Atlanta, and is crushed that her glamorous new stepsister, Tangie, wants nothing to do with her. They live with Mama and Frank out in the suburbs, and they haven't seen their real daddy much since he married Millicent. G-baby and her younger sister, Peaches, are still getting used to their "blended-up" family. "Well that's the kind of love Daddy and Mama got for us, Peaches - love like sky." ![]() But have you ever seen the sky run out? No matter how far we go?" "That's why we gotta go to the gas station." If you keep driving and driving, gas will run out, right?" "How is it then?" Peaches asked, turning on her stomach to face me. In this heartfelt middle-grade novel that “brims with charm and compassion” (Vashti Harrison, New York Times bestselling author of Little Leaders), eleven-year-old G-baby must bring her family together when her little sister faces a dangerous illness ![]()
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