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Born into a family with artistry in their fingers, Lyza laments that her only talent is carving letters into wood. That is until her life is turned upside down when her mother succumbs to the influenza pandemic of 1918, which is devastating their small coastal town in Maine. With her mother... read more
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As a child who waded in the head-high grass of our cliffside home, I'd harbored a peculiar fondness for funeral marches - the sight of all those people in one long line, each face holding a memory.
Table of Contents edit
1. Death Passed
2. Chipping the World Away
3. Orphaned by Family Talents
4. Angels and meteors
5. To learn a thing or three
6. Fever
7. To Abner Island
8. Waiting for Mayra
9. What right?
10. Worth going back for
11. Pater adrift
12. The wishes of the dead
13. Granny Layton
14. Lyza away
15. Keep her well
16. Portland
17. When seeing is not believing
18. The Layton Family line
19. A true tell on the tide
20. The sway of the spirits
21. From where they sit
22. "I'll do my best"
23. As the final note falls...
Authors & Contributors edit
- Alexandria R.T. LaFaye (Author)
Subjects edit
- Books › Children's Books › People & Places › Family Life › Parents › Fiction
- Books › Children's Books › Literature
- Books › Teens
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