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Gr 5-7 "i don't remember the sun. i don't remember the sun or how my sister, monk, says it warms you up-." So begins Lila's unusual, gentle, almost ethereal narration. She has lived in a reverse world for all of her almost nine years, unable to go out in daylight because of a condition called xeroderma pigmentosum, a "defect that made me sensitive to light. the sun. uv rays. some streetlights." Lila goes to a coffee shop called the Fallen Angel with Monk, 18, in her ja...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Lila lives by night. Yearning for a sun she must never see, she snacks on "sun-kissed" raisins and treasures a "sun bag" of things she imagines can transport her to a sunlit beach. She's homeschooled, and her only close friends, who have yet to be glimpsed by her family, always leave at dawn when Lila goes to bed. Readers are well along in the story before an explanation is provided: born with xeroderma pigmentosum, Lila is acutely sensitive to sunlight. She's lucky in having loving, sensible p...Log In or Sign Up to Read More