From the author of Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy comes the story of a friendship between two girls set in Victorian England

Summertime means fresh veggies at the farm stand to pick out and count

to explain their growing appeal in our secular age

By the end of summer

Speaker for the Dead

Held Captive: The Kidnapping and Rescue of Elizabeth Smart Cookies Cakes & Pies From the author of OpheliaIn the dead of night in June, 2002, 14year old Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped at knife point from her devoutly Mormon household. Nine months later, she was discovered with her two abductors just miles from her homeand returned to her family as a dramatically different person. Her innocence was stolen and her identity stripped over months in the gnarled mountains overlooking her family home, by captors who wrapped themselves in a religion of their own