Lilys Crossing (Yearling Newberg)

Elizabeth Mollahan--the Lily of Lily's Crossing--lost her mom when she was little. Her father and a grandmother are her only family. Every summer the three of them flee sweaty New York City for a beach house in New York's Rockaways. This year though, Lily's father announces that he's enlisted in the Army; days later, he is gone. Alone with her grandmother, Lily sees a long lonely summer ahead. And then, Albert appears. A refugee from the Nazis, his family thrown to the winds, young Albert...

When Lily meets Albert, a refugee from Hungary, during the summer of 1944, they begin a special friendship. However, Lily and Albert have both told lies, and Lily has told a lie that may cost Albert...

"This year, as in other years, Lily has planned a spectacular summer in Rockaway, in her family, s cozy house on stilts over the Atlantic Ocean. But by the summer of 1944, World War II has changed almost everyone, s life. Lily, s best friend, Margaret, and her family have moved to a wartime factory town, and worse, much worse, Lily, s father is on his way overseas to the war. There, s no one else Lily, s age in Rockaway until Albert comes, a refugee from Hungary, a boy with a secret sewn into...