Monument 14 Cover:Paperback a former elementary school teacher

a former elementary school teacher

And he was a gifted artist

A Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor Book for Nonfiction • An ALA Notable Book • An SCBWI Golden Kite Honor Award Winner for Nonfiction

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learning more about themselves and each other than they could have imagined

Monument 14 Cover:Paperback a former elementary school teacherYour mother hollers that you're going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don't stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don't thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course notyou launch yourself down the stairs and make a run for the corner. Only, if it's the last time you'll ever see your mother, you sort of start to wish you'd stopped and did those things. Maybe even missed the bus. But the bus was