Dear Emmie Blue is a book for dreamers. It is sweet and gentle, even as it tackles some serious stuff. Plot: Emmie is a lonely, traumatized kid when, in a desperate bid for companionship, releases a balloon with her email address into the sky in England. That balloon is found by Lucas, a British kid who’d just moved to France and was deeply homesick. They become best friends. At the start of the book, Emmie thinks she’s meeting Lucas to confirm that after 14 years […]