Patricia Gordon

Sage Finds Summer Patricia Gordon

Sage Finds Summer


"Sage, did I ever tell you what my aunty used to call a day like this?" Mommy asked. "Hot?" Sage answered. "If there ever was a time she was not feeling one of Mommy's "When I was a girl in Jamaica stories," this was it. But she knew better than to say that. "Well, whenever I had a day when I felt upside down, aunty told me to look around myself, open my eyes, and see about someone else. You know, you can see much more if you take your eyes off yourself, Sage."

Brooklyn-raised, Jamaica rooted 10- year-old Sage Spencer, feels like she's in a class by herself, and not in a good way. Papa died a few months ago and this is her first summer without his over-the-top family vacations. With most of her friends taking exciting trips away from the city and the temperatures already at sticky degrees, Sage expects the next 9 weeks to be "endlessly empty."

But then things take an unexpected turn. The destruction to Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria blows in new neighbors with a problem Sage understands and can hopefully fix! With her culture and faith behind her, a prized possession, and her family's courage to hope, can Sage still have a summer when nothing is the way it used to be?