Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights:#1 Spirito and Clementina’s marriage was strong, and they had two children. But in America, they believed, lay their fortune. They arrived in Leetonia, Pennsylvania, in 1902, and Spirito took what work he could at the remaining mills and the logging sites.#2 Mike took a job at Indian Lake High School, and the family moved into a house with flower beds and vegetable plots. Judith did her best to mask the smell of the pigsty out back.#3 Jim’s childhood was spent moving from house to house with his mother, who worked for the government. He had a set of toy guns and a Spirograph, and he spent his time playing with them or reading books. His friends were the boys in his neighborhood, who became his friends because they had to spend time together.#4 Jim’s house was a base camp for exploration and invention. The small terrace surrounding the recessed flower bed in the side yard made a fine cockpit for a boy perched on the top step, the flagpole rising from the middle of the garden a perfect propeller post.