Crying Rocks

From Newbery Honor author Janet Taylor Lisle comes a lyrical story about one girls discovery of her startling pastand her search to understand her complicated present.Joelles height and dark skin set her apart from everyone in Marshfield. Its no secret that shes adopted, but where is she from? Aunt Mary Louise says she came from Chicago on a freight train, but the story doesnt sit right with Joelle. Theres something more. She feels it. Carlos, the quiet boy in Joelles Spanish class, sees it. When he tells her that she looks like a girl in the town librarys old mural of Narragansett Indians, Joelle cant help sneaking a look. Shes 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 thereabout the pasts theyve both buried, and the discovery of a rare kind of courage that runs deep in Joelles family.

From Newbery Honor author Janet Taylor Lisle comes a lyrical story about one girls discovery of her startling pastand her search to understand her complicated present.Joelles height and dark skin set her apart from everyone in Marshfield. Its no secret that shes adopted, but where is she from? Aunt Mary Louise says she came from Chicago on a freight train, but the story doesnt sit right with Joelle. Theres something more. She feels it. Carlos, the quiet boy in Joelles Spanish class, sees it. When he tells her that she looks like a girl in the town librarys old mural of Narragansett Indians, Joelle cant help sneaking a look. Shes 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 thereabout the pasts theyve both buried, and the discovery of a rare kind of courage that runs deep in Joelles family.