A Thousand Boy Kisses - Tillie Cole
It's a bittersweet romantic love story between Rune Kristiansen and Poppy Litchfield. Rune, a Norwegian boy whose family moved to Georgia from Oslo when he was five. Poppy his neighbor, met the Viking boy on his very first day at Georgia and they became friends. The story is told at different stages of their life. At age 9 Poppy's Mamaw (grandmother) was very sick and she left home for heaven. Before she left, she gave an adventure for Poppy. She gave a jar filled with thousand pink hearts to Poppy to record all the boy kisses that will make her heart almost burst, the ones that are most special to remember when old and the ones that will make her smile when she remembers them in her mind. Of course the first kiss is: Kiss1 With my Rune. In the blossom grove. My heart almost burst. At age 15 they were separated because of Rune's father's work. They talked everyday for two months and all of a sudden there was no news about Poppy. She just vanished from his life for t...