PHOEBE HOLDEN

​Confined to her room due to a life-threatening illness, Caroline hasn't been to school in months. Unexpectedly, classmate Anthony bursts in bearing waffle fries, some Walt Whitman poetry and a literature project due the next day. He’s enthusiastic, athletic, and charming in a nerdy sort of way, but Caroline is wary. Still, an unlikely friendship develops as a run of the mill homework assignment reveals the pair's hopes and dreams, and they come to realize that Whitman’s sense of interconnectedness means more to their lives than they could have imagined.