The Crying Rocks (Thorndike Large Print Literacy Bridge Series) - Hardcover

Lisle, Janet Taylor

 
9780786261406: The Crying Rocks (Thorndike Large Print Literacy Bridge Series)

Synopsis

Thirteen-year-old Joelle has always wondered about her life before being adopted by the woman she calls Aunt Louise and her husband Vernon, and she makes some surprising discoveries while researching a seventeenth-century Indian tribe.

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Review

"Complex and engaging."

-- "Kirkus Reviews"

"Lisle's fluidly written story fascinates."

-- "Booklist"

"Exciting...replete with cathartic revelations."

-- "Bookpage"

About the Author

Janet Taylor Lisle's novels for young readers include five selected as Best Books of the Year by School Library Journal: Sirens and Spies, The Lampfish of Twill, Forest, A Message from the Match Girl (from the Investigators of the Unknown series), and Afternoon of the Elves, a Newbery Honor Book. Her most recent title for Atheneum is The Art of Keeping Cool, a Horn Book Fanfare title and winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction.

She lives with her family on the coast of Rhode Island.

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