Love From Your Friend, Hannah — Mindy Warshaw Skolsky

I need a pen pal -- a real one -- not like that smart aleck Edward Winchley from Wichita, Kansas.

Hannah has a problem. When her best friend moves away from Grand View, New York in 1937, they promise to write each other. But Aggie doesn't write back at all.

Determined to find a new pen pal, Hannah picks a name out of a box on her teacher's desk. It's a boy and his first letter is so dopey, Hannah doesn't even bother to answer it. Instead she writes to the president of the United States. After all, her father says that President Roosevelt understands the people's problems -- so maybe he can even help Hannah.

Before long, Hannah has more pen pals than she bargained for. And at last she finds the perfect pen pal -- and the perfect friend -- in the most unlikely place.