I am Darn Tough by Licia Morelli Sharon Lovejoy Lake Ocean

Lake Ocean

up-close images that present the life cycles of 23 common North American butterflies in amazing detail

and suddenly there is a strange

--Marjorie Perloff

And Conrad's hat seize ("The Goosegirl")"19 "Good Dwarf

I am Darn Tough by Licia Morelli Sharon Lovejoy Lake OceanMorelli isn't just writing about a cross country race run by a young girl, perhaps 11, with brown skin and flushed cheeks. The girl prepares at the starting line with her teammates. There is the crunch of gravel, large hills, and twisting paths, captured in soft focus watercolors. It is a true quest, right down to the moment of stumbling and scraping her knee. "I remember crying, feeling defeated. My heart hurting, stomach in knots." Readers are there