The Seventh Most Important Thing
Written by Shelley Pearsall
1960s Fiction
One Crazy Summer
Winner of the 2011 Coretta Scott King Award * Winner of the 2011 Scott O’Dell Historical Fiction Award * A 2011 Newbery Honor Book * 2010 National Book Award Finalist
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Every night, after she’s read a couple of chapters of Nancy Drew, Franny closes her eyes and drafts a letter to Chairman Khrushchev, asking him to come to an understanding of things and not blow up America. But she can never get the wording quite right. In fact, she can’t seem to get anything quite …