Linda Oatman High

Eight-year-old Ivy Cordelia spends the summer of 1936 in Atlantic City with her photographer father, and dreams of being the girl who perches on a horse as it dives into a tank of water.

A boy spends a long day helping his father dismantle a nineteenth-century barn so that the pieces can be used in other barns and houses to live another one hundred years.

After Nicholas, a poor nineteenth-century chimney sweep, finishes cleaning a chimney on Christmas Eve, his last customer gives him a warm coat and a pretty gift, and tells the boy to pass the kindness on.

In this novel told in slam verse, best friends and aspiring poets Laura and Twig embark on a road trip after graduating from high school, from Pennsylvania to New York City, to compete at slam poetry events.