Father, mother, sister, brother. A happy family - until the youngest, the boy, is diagnosed with cancer. Told in verse from the teenage daughter's point of view, Rubber Houses is a tearjerker of a story, written simply and shared gently.

Even though Kit is eight years older than Buddy, the two are as thick as thieves. My sister and I are eleven years apart, but we were incredibly close growing up. I am the younger of the two, so reading this story made me consider how it must have been to be in her shoes, dealing with the drama of high school while your sibling was barely in elementary school.