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A Box, Then a Door
Seventeen-year-old Elia expects a tidy catalog, but a box of undelivered letters leads her into the living memory of a harbor town—and toward a new way of helping people speak.
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The Orchard of Unsent Letters
A retired postal sorter finds a box of letters that were never meant to be delivered—and builds a safer way for people to begin speaking.
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