Lenny's Book of Everything

Set in Ohio in the 1970s, Lenny’s Book of Everything is every bit a coming-of-age novel about family, grief, and hope. Lenny and her little brother Davey, who suffers from gigantism, obsess over the monthly installments of their encyclopedia set, dreaming of becoming beetle experts and building log cabins in faraway Canada. As Davey’s disease progresses, the devoted siblings are forced to confront the harsh realities of life, and Lenny finds herself struggling with feelings of shame surrounding Davey, and hurt from their father who abandoned them. Expertly navigating the grey areas of human morality, the tender heartbreak of love and loss, and the magical wonder of childhood imagination, Foxlee’s tearjerker will appeal to readers young and old.