If You Come Softly: Twentieth Anniversary Edition Cover:Paperback No one wants to hear

No one wants to hear the little boy play his ukelele anymore

Cuz tonight I’m delivering

What do repeated traumas visited upon generation after generation of a people produce

handsome “lemon drop wrapped in licorice” who treats her like a woman

If You Come Softly: Twentieth Anniversary Edition Cover:Paperback No one wants to hearHardcover Paperback A heartbreaking contemporary romance from a three time Newbery Honor winning author Jeremiah feels good inside his own skin. That is, when he's in his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But now he's going to be attending a fancy prep school in Manhattan, and black teenage boys don't exactly fit in there. So it's a surprise when he meets Ellie the first week of school. In one frozen moment their eyes lock and after that they know they fit