INTERMEDIATE FICTION
Hilmo, Tess

Skies like These

(2) 4-6 Twelve-year-old Jade's parents have shipped her off to Wyoming to visit her aunt. The first friend Jade makes there, Roy (who worships Butch Cassidy), insists she help him rob a bank so his parents can reopen their hardware store. Hilmo's small-town setting is affectionately portrayed, as are her characters--all of whom turn out to have hearts of gold.

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