All the way home

Its August 1941, and Brick and Mariel both love the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Brick listens to their games on the radio in Windy Hill, in upstate New York, where his family has an apple orchard; Mariel, once a polio patient in the hospital in Windy Hill, lives in Brooklyn near the Dodgers home, Ebbets Field.

She was adopted by Loretta, a nurse at the hospital, and has never known what happened to her own mother.

Someday, somehow, she plans to return to Windy Hill and find out.

When a fire destroys their orchard, Bricks parents must leave the farm to find work.

They send him to live in Brooklyn with their friend Loretta, even though Brick knows that their elderly neighbors need his help to pick whats left of the apples.

The only good thing about Brooklyn is seeing the Dodgers playthat, and his friendship with Mariel.

Maybe, together, theyll find a way to return to Windy Hill, save the harvest, and learn the truth about Mariels past.From the Hardcover edition.