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Penny from Heaven

''Penny from Heaven'' (2006) is a children's novel that was named a Newbery Honor book in 2007.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2007 Newbery Medal and Honor Books )〕 It was written by Jennifer L. Holm, the author of another Newbery Honor book, ''Our Only May Amelia'' and first published by Random House.
==Plot ==
Penny from Heaven is a story of eleven years old Barbara Ann  Falucci whose nickname is Penny. She believes that people call her Penny because her father Alfred Falucci loved Bing Crosby song “ Pennies from Heaven”. After her father’s death Penny lives with her mother Ellie and grandparents Me-Me and Pop-Pop. Even though, she has her old dog Scarlett O’Hara to play with, Penny loves to spend time with her father’s italian family Falucci.
Her father was the oldest son of her grandmother Nonny,and the only one of her six children who was born in Italy. Penny doesn't know why both sides of her family are not close and why nobody tells her father’s real death cause. Her  cousin Mickey says that her father had cancer and according to Me-Me he died from the last stage of pneumonia. Penny’s best friend is her fourteen years old cousin  Frankie who is a real troublemaker.Once he persuaded Penny to lie to her grandparents and go to the public pool.  Penny’s mother is overparenting, She doesn't allow her anything what considers as fun for eleven years children. No pool, no movie for her because Penny can catch polio. It was a surprise when her mother allowed Penny to work in her uncle’s Falluci meat store. Her favorite uncle Dominic works there as well. He lives in his car and wears slippers all the time.  He gave Penny a lucky bean to bring her a luck. Many years ago only Dominic supported Penny’s parents marriage while the rest of his family wanted him marry Italian girl. Her uncle and her mom used to be good friends.  Penny wants him to marry  her mother and become her new father.  She gets very disappointed when she finds out her mother dating milkman Mr. Mulligan. Penny decide to break her mother relationship with the milkman and acts rude during the dinner. She asks Mr. Mulligan uncomfortable questions and compares him with her father. Afterall, she runs away to her uncle Dominic and cries . She wants him to date her mother while he says that this is impossible.
One of her uncles tells Penny and Frankie that their grandfather Falucci hide money in their backyard and died before telling anyone his secret. They decided to find grandfather’s heritage and searched all over the backyard. After it was unsuccessful , they want to search money in the basement. They waited for all adults to leave and pretended doing a laundry.  Frankie found money and was so exciting.  Penny was  distracted and her right arm has been pulled through the wringer all the way up to her armpit and its stuck, while the wringer is  still going down.Penny woke up in the hospital where during her dream she heard her mother accusing her uncle Dominic in her father’s death.  After a several weeks in the hospital, Penny still was not able to move her right arm fingers. Her mother used to  work  in that hospital before and knew all doctors there. One of the doctors said that Penny’s chances to remain disabled are high.
Penny woke up at night and she heard two nurses talking about her mother. They said her father was an Italian spy and was killed by the United States of America government.  When she asked her mom about that she starts crying. Her aunt decided to tell her the truth. When Penny was a baby, her uncle Dominic bought her father a brand-new radio. He didn't know Italians were not allowed to have this kind of radio. After Pearl Harbor country went crazy and all non-citizens were consider as spies. Unfortunately, her father was born in Italy and was not U.S citizen. He got sick in the jail and died. In the last letter he wrote :” Baby is just like a lost penny, i’ll never hold again”. This was a real reason why everyone called her Penny. She realized why her mom said Dominic killed her husband. It was him who bought that radio. She wanted to see him and say that it was not his fault, but he never showed up to visit her in the hospital. All she had left is her lucky bean from him.
The girl who lived with Penny in the same room asked to see her lucky bean.Penny wants  to reach it but loses balance and lucky bean slides of from the table. Penny doesnt want to drop it and catches it with her fingers.  She moves her fingers and believes it was a mystery of her  lucky bean.

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