THE WINNER OF a National Book Award, a Newbery Honor, and countless other awards has written her richest, most spirited book yet, filled with characters that readers will love, and never forget. Jane is 12 years old, and she is ready for adventures, to move beyond the world of her siblings... read more
“"I realize that everyone in the whole world is at the end of the day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will every know." —Jane Fielding”Jane Fielding
Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.Highlighted by 7 Kindle customers
We affect people around us so much with our moods. A depressed person can make a room gloomy and a sweet nature can cause the lion to lie down with the lamb.Highlighted by 5 Kindle customers
All summers take me back to the sea.Highlighted by 4 Kindle customers
No one really understands a family but the people in it and even they each understand it differently.Highlighted by 4 Kindle customers
“We all belong here equally, Jane,” she says. “Just by being born onto the earth we are accepted and the earth supports us.Highlighted by 4 Kindle customers
I want something I know not what, which is what adventures are about. The step into the know-not-what.Highlighted by 4 Kindle customers
I know Sunday is supposed to be the beginning of the week but my mother’s Sunday tranquility makes it feel as if we are putting the week to bed, pulling the covers up under its chin, blessing what has been and closing its eyes for sleep.Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
enough in herself alone to have made us. That she has dreamt us into being.Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
He is a tall man with shaggy hair and bad teeth, in a suit too big for his sharp, elbowy frame. He looks like a clothes hanger.Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
bits of sponge and sea life. Then she names them. And in that moment we all believe her. It is mermaid hair, seahorse halter, Persephone weed, your father.Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
Summer Begins
A Stranger Comes
Mrs. Parks's Thrombosis
Delivering Bibles by Balloon
The Poetry Reading
The Rescue
The Seer
Mr. Fordyce
Mabel's Cousin the Channeler
Ned
Death
The Funeral
Everyone Disappears
Everyone Reappears
To Canada
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