This book is about two 12 year old kids - Colin and Nevaeh. They don't know each other but they live in a fairly small town and their parents both do a type of junk removal/organization for people and Colin's mom and Nevaeh's dad don't like each other. Colin finds a shoebox full of letters in one of the homes he's helping clean and through that ends up meeting Nevaeh and they try to figure out who the letters belonged to. The chapters go back and forth between Colin and Nevaeh's points of view.
I really enjoyed this book. I liked the mystery that they were trying to solve and trying to figure out what happened to these two people that wrote the letters.
I thought the characters of Colin and Nevaeh were really well developed. They were very relatable and the author did a great job of showing their internal thoughts and doubts and insecurities. I really liked how Colin sees the beauty in old things and sees them in a different way. At one point Colin sees a suncatcher "...It was a flower suncatcher that had been hanging in a window for so long that almost all the color had bleached out of it - it was a suncatcher destroyed by the sun."
I would highly recommend this book.

This book was reviewed on the Literary Club Podcast episode 65
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1984185 ( )

Colin's mother and Neveah's family both own junk-hauling companies. Both kids are aware of a sense of competition between the two businesses. The tension is heightened when Neveah's father believes Colin's mother Felicia stole and sold the antique furniture that was supposed to have been stored in an abandoned storage locker. The two kids end up bonding over two hidden shoeboxes of letters betweenToby and Rosemary who were best friends in the 1970s. Who were Toby and Rosemary and why did their friendship end badly, according to the letters? Colin and Neveah are determined to find out what happened and end up finding a compelling connection to their own families. Their story unfolds like a treasure hunt; young readers will be intrigued by the path and twists the story takes. ( )

The adults might be rivals, but Colin and Nevaeh have no such issues when they accidentally meet and bond over long lost letters written by a boy and a girl close to their ages many years ago. It's their growing friendship and determination to discover what broke that earlier friendship, that pulls you in and has you rooting for their success. Add in how many of the adults they know or meet during this quest are all connected and you have a great story. ( )