Not just an ordinary birthday…
“Two of the things Benjamin Hunter received for his twelfth birthday took him completely by surprise: A room and a letter. The room was from his parents. The letter was from his uncle.”
Ben was just two years old when he and his uncle, Ian, were last together, so Ben didn’t remember him. And no one in Ben’s family ever talked about the man. Then the letter arrived, changing Ben’s life, and changing his family in unexpected ways. And there was the birthday room…
Multiple award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Kevin Henkes brings his insightful, gentle, real-world insight to middle grade novels, including:
- Billy Miller Makes a Wish
- Bird Lake Moon
- The Birthday Room
- Junonia
- Olive’s Ocean
- Protecting Marie
- Sun & Spoon
- Sweeping Up the Heart
- Two Under Par
- Words of Stone
- The Year of Billy Miller
- The Zebra Wall
