for the lie to work

shimmering and dreamy

even when climbing trees

for a national day

The Sunflower Boys: A Novel Teen & Young Adult Fiction about Homelessness & Poverty for the lie to workA poignant coming of age story with the sensitivity and haunting power of What Belongs to You and Swimming in the Dark, about a young boy wrestling with his sexuality as war breaks out in modern Ukraine. In many ways, twelve year old Artems life in Chernihiv, Ukraine, is normal. He spends his days helping on his grandfathers sunflower farm, drawing in his sketchbooka treasured gift from his father, who works in Americaand swimming in the river with