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School’s out for summer, and Penny and her cousin Frankie have big plans to eat lots of butter pecan ice cream, swim at the local pool, and cheer on their favorite baseball team—the Brooklyn Dodgers! But sometimes things don’t go according to plan. Penny’s mom doesn’t want her to swim because she’s afraid Penny will get polio. Frankie is constantly getting into trouble, and Penny feels caught between the two sides of her family. But even if the summer doesn’t exactly start as planned . . . things can work out in the most unexpected ways!
 
Set just after World War II, this thought-provoking novel also highlights the prejudice Penny’s Italian American family must confront because people of Italian descent were “the enemy” not long ago.
 
Inspired by three-time Newbery Honor winner Jennifer Holm’s own Italian American family, Penny from Heaven is a story about families—about the things that tear them apart and the things that bring them back together.

  1953年，11岁的女孩佩妮梦想着整个暑假都能吃上山核桃奶油冰激凌，还可以去游泳，以及和表哥、叔叔一起打棒球。但在佩妮家，这一切却都没那么容易实现。妈妈不让她去游泳，而她最喜欢的叔叔竟然住在车里。更糟糕的是，自从爸爸去世后，奶奶一家和妈妈的家人便不再来往。然而，佩妮发生了一场意外，她的家人因此重聚在一起，解开了纠缠两家人多年的心结……
★本书展现了小主人公佩妮在暑假里发生了一场意外，却由此解开爸爸去世的真相，化解家人多年以来的矛盾，用爱感化家人的故事。
★本书根据真实历史事件创作，在告诉孩子亲情可贵的同时，引导他们关注真实的历史事件，反思战争，从而懂得珍惜当下的生活。