Days into summer vacation, sixteen-year-old Cayleigh feels like a criminal. She finds herself in O'Hare Airport, her luggage open on the floor, for her flight to Israel. Her dad reassures her that everything is okay, only it's not. Her mom is not with them for the trip.

Seven days before summer vacation begins, fifty-seven days before her seventeenth birthday, Noelle finds her father's camera on her bed. Her father died seventeen years ago, seven months before she was born. Her mother is still so heart-broken that she is only able to share the details of their life together in bits and pieces, snapshots. An avid photographer, Noelle finds herself rising early, despite it being summer vacation and prime-time to sleep in, to begin exploring her world through this new lens, hoping, as her friend Trevor suggests, that it will help her see pieces of her father as...

Joining this world in 1921, Lillian Frances Estell Ritchie was the second girl, the fourth of what would eventually be eight children born to John Henry and Nona Estell. Lillian grew up poor in rural Indiana. She saw the devastating effects of the depression first hand as her family moved ten times in sixteen years. She remembers having two dresses to wear during the Depression. She remembers when electricity and indoor plumbing became a part of her everyday life. She remembers WW2, Vietnam, man's first flight, Kennedy's assassination, and the landing of a man on the moon. She also...