I Will Sing Life: Voices from the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp

Children from age seven through 17 find reasons to sing at the camp that actor Newman founded and named after the hideout in his hit film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Although terminally ill, the campers are determined to live and do. The seven boys and girls in this book, with guidance from counselors Berger and Lithwick, offer poems and prose of stunning originality--funny or wistful reflections on family, the larger world, even politics and the careers they plan for their adult years. Benson's photographs of the children at the camp and on visits to their homes will enhance readers' affection and respect for the kids, their supportive parents and siblings, and all involved with the Hole in the Wall Gang. (June)