Sharon Creech's new novel, The Boy on the Porch, will be available at a bookstore near you in September 2013. 

Our class will begin reading this novel next week. How is that possible? Sharon Creech just mailed an advanced reader's copy to Los Reyes Elementary School. Yes, I will be checking our school mail a thousand times a day. Yes, yes...perhaps a million times a day.

Can you make a personal connection?

One day a young couple wakes to find a boy asleep on their porch. Unable to speak, the boy cannot explain his history. What kind of person would leave their child with strangers? All they know is that they have been chosen to care for this boy. And as their connection to him grows, they embrace his exuberant spirit and talents. The three of them blossom into an unlikely family, and John and Marta and the boy begin to see the world in brand-new ways. Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech delivers a poignant story of finding family when you least expect it.