Kathryn Stern spent her childhood in Michigan and Australia. She now lives in North Carolina with her husband, where they raised their three children. She enjoys hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains and spending time in Ann Arbor.
Here is a story that introduces a shy, unassuming boy who just wants to get through his day. Tom's father is a botanist and his mother is a zealous environmental activist; he is perennially reminded that the planet is in peril. Set in the Midwest during the mid-1970s,
