Lily's CrossingBy: Patricia Reilly Giff This brilliantly told (New York Times) Newbery Honor Book gives readers a sense of what it was like to be on the American home front while our soldiers were away fighting in World War II. As in past years, Lily will spend the summer in Rockaway, in her familys summer house by the Atlantic Ocean. But this summer of 1944, World War II has changed everyones life. Lilys best friend, Margaret, has moved to a wartime factory town,