It's time for the Blueberry Festival, and everyone in town is busy getting ready. Kylie Jean Carter's momma is baking pies, her pa is picking berries, and Kylie is thinking about becoming the Blueberry Queen.

In order to earn money, twelve-year-old Missy and her older brother Patrick spend the summer working on a blueberry farm, where they learn lessons about life and growing up.

This book is a moment, a moment shared by one family. They are all together, now and later, when they remember this special day. E. B. Goodale's gorgeous illustrations explore the power of memory and how it allows us to be in two places at once: here and also-there, with those we love. Always. --

Little Bear LOVES blueberries, and while picking them for Mama so she can make his favorite blueberry cake, he eats them all and must find a way not to come home empty handed.