Cecilia Galante

Twelve-year-old May is living in a desolate situation with only her grandmother, who is depressed about the absence of May’s mother, and her father, who works long hours and is almost never around....

Julia just graduated as her high school valedictorian, has a full ride to college in the fall and a coveted summer internship clerking for a federal judge....

When 12-year-old Hershey must run away with her mother to a women's shelter, she wonders how, among other things, she'll compete in the town talent show with her best friend, Phoebe...

There's nothing 10-year-old Lily Sinclair likes about her new life in the city with her single mom....

Best friends Agnes and Honey live at Mount Blessing, a religious commune....

In the vein of Meg Donohue and Sarah Jio, Cecilia Galante s second novel delivers the powerful story of one young woman who s faced with an impossible choice one that could have her making the biggest mistake of her life. Thirteen days. That s all Bernadette, Bird, Sincavage has left to...