Every Saturday, Danielle and her mother head to the local park to pick up trash. It's quite the chore for eleven-year-old Danielle, but her mother helps pass the time by telling her stories for each piece of trash they find.A tennis ball becomes the tennis ball that won a corgi the gold medal in the Puppy Olympics.A pair of sunglasses becomes a signal flare saving a couple lost in the desert.A softball becomes evidence of the eight-foot-tall giant Bruce Henry who once hit such a ball from New York City to Florida.But one Saturday-their first Saturday out after the death of Danielle's grandmother-Danielle's mother has another story to tell, the story of the Night Angel.As Danielle listens to her mother's story, she realizes that the story of the Night Angel is something more than just a lesson on taking care of the Earth, it's a fairy tale that teaches her that sometimes in order to grow up, we must believe in fairy tales once again.
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