The Journals of June Jefferson

Fourteen-year-old Millie Monstead's world has turned upside down, dashing her hopes and plans for the future. But her life in the arid Sonoran Desert soon takes a sudden, unexpected turn, catapulted by a simple act of kindness toward a lonely elderly neighbor and the revelations of a mysterious old journal. Join Millie, Ida, and others along the way as they discover a woman who nearly a century before faced a similar challenge and had to make a similar choice: whether to give up or to face the coming darkness with courage and grace.