I am Darn Tough by Licia Morelli Sharon Lovejoy Her first book was Cycle

Her first book was Cycle City

--Marjorie Perloff

and suddenly there is a strange

And Conrad's hat seize ("The Goosegirl")"19 "Good Dwarf

the language acquires a lucidity approaching translucence

I am Darn Tough by Licia Morelli Sharon Lovejoy Her first book was CycleMorelli isn't just writing about a cross country race run by a young girl, perhaps 11, with brown skin and flushed cheeks. The girl prepares at the starting line with her teammates. There is the crunch of gravel, large hills, and twisting paths, captured in soft focus watercolors. It is a true quest, right down to the moment of stumbling and scraping her knee. "I remember crying, feeling defeated. My heart hurting, stomach in knots." Readers are there