I Will Always Write Back by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda with Liz Welch is a non-fiction book about the power of written letters and how they can change lives.

Caitlin Alifirenka lives in the small town of Hatfield, Pennsylvania, where everyone keeps to themselves.  Everyone knows each other and they’re all friends. Catlin thinks everyone lives this way until she takes a trip to Germany, France, Italy, and Sweden, and she is exposed to a world bigger than her own.

Wanting to continue her education about different places and cultures, Caitlin becomes a pen pal with a boy in Africa named Martin  Martin lives near a big city, but he mostly stays close to his family and friends from school. Martin receives the first letter of his class and finds out that his pen pal lives in America. He wonders what it would be like in America. He has heard lots of rumors but wonders if they are really true.

After exchanging many letters, they discover they live in two different worlds, have two different ways of living and two different ways of thinking.  The book chronicles how two very different people connect and decide they will always write pen pal letters back to each other.