One Grateful Summer - Germany Mayfield - Bog

Like many kids, Marquise Preston is your typical 12-year-old kid who loves the game of basketball, video games and spending the summer fraternizing with some of his closest friends. However, this summer is going to be a bit different for him as he faces some of the toughest personal challenges of his life. Armed with an expansive imagination, he strikes off to form a kinship with a stranger not realizing that much of what he's looking for he already has at his disposal! Along his pursuit to make his 13th birthday wish come true, he experiences sentimental dreams, various setbacks and an ending that he doesn't quite expect, but realizes it's a lesson worth learning and embracing!