Author’s note
I was eleven years old when my father took his own life. Before that, my world had been beautiful, like Louise’s. I had friends, a school, violin classes, and a close-knit family. While our stories are quite different in many ways, after learning of my father’s death, I too became very sick with a high fever for a week or so. When I awoke I was so weak, I had to relearn how to walk. I soon found myself in a frozen landscape. I avoided all contact with any part of my old life. In fact, I asked my mother to help me change schools so that I wouldn’t have to face my old friends. I never played the violin again and it took me some time to find my way out of my own winter storm.I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.
Acknowledgments
A very special thank-you to my wonderful and insightful editor, Rachel Griffiths, dear friend, who helped me find my way through the thickets and fields of this story. Also special thanks to Arthur Levine. What a joy it is to be a part of the Arthur A. Levine Books family! (Thank you, Mallory Kass.) And thank you to all the incredibly nice people at Scholastic, especially Nikki Mutch, Sue Flynn, Becky Amsel, Whitney Lyle, Cheryl Weisman, Jana Haussman, and Ann Marie Wong.I am also grateful to my friends Yvette Feig and Bob Murray, who read the book aloud together on their one-week vacation this year. Thank you to my kind readers, Kristy Carlson; Mary Swanson; Linda Smith; Sarah Wesson; Jillian Fay, gymnastics coach; and my sister, Marcia Croll. I am forever grateful to my poet mom, Ruth Stone, who has heard this book at least twice and who always laughs over and over again in all the right places. And thank you to my husband, ever-patient David Carlson, who by the way, has saved my life three times!
About the Author
Phoebe Stone’s
last book was
The Romeo and Juliet Code
, which received starred reviews in both
Publishers Weekly
and the
Horn Book Magazine
. The
Boston Globe
hailed it “a masterpiece for young readers everywhere” and said it was “quite simply the best novel for young readers … since
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
.” Phoebe lives in Middlebury, Vermont.
Copyright
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stone, Phoebe, 1947-
The boy on Cinnamon Street / by Phoebe Stone. -- 1st ed.p. cm.Summary: Since a tragedy she cannot remember, thirteen-year-old Louise has changed her name, given up gymnastics, moved in with her grandparents, and locked her feelings inside but through her friends Reni and Hen and notes from a secret admirer she begins to find herself again.ISBN-13: 978-0-545-21512-1 (alk. paper)ISBN-10: 0-545-21512-9 (alk. paper)[1. Memory — Fiction. 2. Best friends — Fiction. 3. Friendship — Fiction. 4. Grandparents — Fiction. 5. Schools — Fiction. 6. Massachusetts — Fiction.]I. Title.PZ7.S879Boy 2012[Fic] — dc23
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Cover photo © 2012 by Michael Frost
Cover design by Whitney Lyle
First edition, February 2012
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