From Newbery Honor author Janet Taylor Lisle comes a lyrical story about one girlās discovery of her startling pastāand her search to understand her complicated present.
Joelleās height and dark skin set her apart from everyone in Marshfield. Itās no secret that sheās adopted, but where is she from? Aunt Mary Louise says she came from Chicago on a freight train, but the story doesnāt sit right with Joelle. Thereās something more. She feels it.
Carlos, the quiet boy in Joelleās Spanish class, sees it. When he tells her that she looks like a girl in the town libraryās old mural of Narragansett Indians, Joelle canāt help sneaking a look. Sheās surprised by a flicker of recognition. And when Carlos tells her about the Crying Rocks, where the ghosts of Narragansett children are said to cry for their lost mothers, Joelle knows she must visit them.
When they finally set out through the forest, neither she nor Carlos anticipates the power of the ancient place, or the revelations to be found thereāabout the pasts theyāve both buried, and the discovery of a rare kind of courage that runs deep in Joelleās family.