Hurwitz, Michele Weber.
THE SUMMER I SAVED THE WORLD IN 65 DAYS
New York : Wendy Lamb, 2014
IL 5-8, RL 3.9
ISBN 0385371063

It is the beginning of summer.  65 long hot, muggy days lay ahead.  Nina’s parents and brother are preoccupied with their own problems.  In fact, everyone in her neighborhood cul-de-sac seems to be busy. Normally, Nina and her grandmother would be involved in a project or cooking, but Grandma died last year and Nina is on her own.  She needs a plan. Nina wonders, what would happen if she does one kind deed each day?  “Does doing good really do any good?”    (Booktalk by Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award Committee)