Two Girls Staring At The Ceiling

Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling ©2014

If I don't tell 
anyone,
I can forget
it happened.

If I can forget 
it happened,
I'll never
have to tell.

"How're you doing Francesca?"
The doctor's face so kind
I almost cry.
"Not too good," I say.

Lucy Frank's novel-in-verse--at once literary and emotionally gripping--follows the unfolding friendship between two very different teenage girls who share a hospital room and an illness. 

Click to read the Kirkus starred review, calling Two Girls "riveting, humanizing, and real."

Winner of the 2011 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship 
One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Teen Friendship Books of 2014 and Best Teen Realism Books of 2014 
Cited for outstanding merit on Bank Street College of Education’s Best Children's Books of the Year

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