I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives: Library Edition

The true story of anall-American girl and a boy from an impoverished city in Zimbabwe and theletter that changed both of their lives foreverIt started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlins classwrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place. All the other kidspicked countries like France or Germany, but when Caitlin saw Zimbabwe writtenon the board, it sounded like the most exotic place she had ever heard ofsoshe chose it.Martin was lucky to even receive a pen pal letter. Therewere only ten letters, and forty kids in his class. But he was the top student,so he got the first one.That letter was the beginning of a correspondence thatspanned six years and changed two lives.In this compelling dual memoir, Caitlin and Martin recounthow they became best friendsand better peoplethrough letters. Their storywill inspire readers to look beyond their own lives and wonder about the worldat large and their place in it.