My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Romance at the start of a red balloon. At the age of 14 when there is no hope of love from an unloving mother or an absent father, a young girl writes a note in a red balloon and sets it aloft where a young boy finds it and writes to her. She has since fallen in love and now, 10 years later, there is the hope that something will become of her secret dream. Of course, predictably, she learns that although her life was hurtful growing up, she learns that people are still good- willing to help and care for a family that is not flesh and blood.