The Titus Gift

On a rural, isolated road, eleven-year-old Tommy Hillman and his younger sister, Erica, face a long sure-to-be-dull summer, made dreadful by their father's serious illness. Their lives shaken, they turn for company to their one neighbor, whose surprising friendship takes them places they never dreamt of going and teaches them the rewards of asking the simplest question: Why? The Titus Gift by Jennifer C.
Weil is an excellent  book  for advanced young readers 8 to 12, and a great choice for parents or older siblings to read to younger ones. Print pages: 281; text length 270 pages.