Danny decides to spend the summer after his freshman year in college working with his estranged Dad at a resort town in Maine. Danny doesn't know until he gets to Ogunquit that the restaurant he's working in had largely gay staff and clientele.
Danny is tall and skinny. Even though he’s not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. But at his private school, they don’t expect much else from him. Danny is brown.
This is the story of librarian Pura Belpré, told through the eyes of two young children who are introduced to the library and its treasures just before Christmas.
At the start of summer, Emily discovers a whale in her pond and immediately writes to her teacher for further information. Humor and fantasy combine for a memorable whale of a tale!