Reaching the age when his father promised to teach him to swim with whales, Paolo is crushed when it is announced that he will go away to school instead and feels unsupported by his friends and uncertain of his future....
It’s the summer of 1945, and April is delighted that the war is finally over and her beloved father is home again. But she has a nagging cough and a fever, and she just can’t seem to get better. When she’s diagnosed with tuberculosis she’s in...