Six year-old Liz believes Charles when he says, "Children don't die." But when a cruel neighbor, Noah (who killed his own cat) dies of pneumonia, Liz learns that Charles just makes things up if he doesn't know.
Liz was just in kindergarten when she heard about Pearl Harbor. She thought something happened to a woman she knew named Pearl. The war quickly changes things. Her father was sent to someplace called the Pacific. She moved with her mother and her sister Jessica to her grandfather's house on Autumn Street. There she meets Charles the son of her grandmother's maid, Tatie. Liz can't understand why people treat Charles differently because of the color of his skin. Find out what happens in the year Liz spent on Autumn Street in this novel by Lois Lowry
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