Newbery Honor author Holm (Our Only May Amelia) conjures a nostalgic 1953 New Jersey summer in this novel with a plucky 11-year-old narrator at its center. Penny divides her time between two extremes: ...

My father had a thing about coins. He searched for them, hoarded them and requested certain ones when he went to the bank. Dad told me his attraction to coins started back in the days when he didn’t ...

In fact, they were steel, at least for a little while. While the words "copper" and "penny" have been glued together seemingly forever, that has not always been the case. In fact, there was a year in ...