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Missing May
by Cynthia Rylant

4. 10 year old Summer lives with her Uncle Ob, a man heartbroken by the death of his wife May. Summer and Uncle Ob, along with the help of a school friend of Summers’ named Cletus, discover what it takes to come to terms with the loss of a loved one and what it takes to find the desire to live life to the fullest.

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