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This critically acclaimed winner of the Newbery Medal and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award joins Scholastic's paperback line. When May dies suddenly while gardening, Summer assumes she'll never see her beloved aunt again. But then Summer's Uncle Ob claims that May is on her way back--she has sent a sign from the spirit world. Summer isn't sure she believes in the spirit world, but her quirky classmate Cletus Underwood--who befriends Ob during his time of mourning--does. So at Cletus' suggestion, Ob and Summer (with Cletus in tow) set off in search of Miriam B. Young, Small Medium at Large, whom they hope will explain May's departure and confirm her possible return.

《想念梅姨》讲述了十二岁的孤女小夏和养父欧伯在养母梅姨离世后，努力走出悲伤，重获心灵自由的心路故事。孤女小夏自从被梅姨夫妇收养后，一家三口在弗吉尼亚州法耶特县的深水镇度过了六年的幸福时光，然而一切的快乐却因为梅姨的突然离世戛然而止。此后的半年，小夏和欧伯都陷入了对梅姨的深深思念之中，无法自拔。幸而，小男孩克莱斯图的出现，给这个夜一般沉寂的家庭带来了活力，他那积极乐观的生活态度也深深打动了小夏父女俩。虽然，欧伯和小夏最终未能实现与梅姨的“再次见面”，但却领悟到了灵魂交流的真谛，重拾了快乐生活下去的勇气和信心。全书虽沉浸在一股淡淡的忧伤情感中，却又令人感到温馨，并产生一种要积极面对一切的生活态度，而这也正是本书所要传达的精神实质。