Eloise & Ray
by Stephanie Fleischmann

Ray skips town on a mysterious mission, only to come back home and find that his Eloise has been sitting by the side of the road for three days‚ as long as he's been gone.

But what better place for a 16-year-old girl to figure out who she is and where she stands in the scheme of things than under the big sky that stretches across a great rolling plain, her painted face exposed to the forces of weathering from sun and wind and sudden violent rain?

A lyrical, bittersweet tale of a coming of age.