Riveting. - RT Reviews. - By the Book Reviews This is a suspenseful page-turner, intricately plotted and bursting with meticulously drawn characters who jump from the page.
A Song of Home If you are looking for a compelling story with a message of hope in the midst of a dark time and characters that will live on in your imagination, then you need to get A Cup of Dust .
A Trail of Crumbs 3.
A Cup of Dust 2.
Enjoy all the Pearl Spence Novels1.
Finkbeiner deftly paints a story of a family unit coming together despite fractures of distress threatening to pull them apart.
While the tone is suspenseful and often poignant, the subtle humor of Pearl\'s voice keeps A Cup of Dust from becoming heavyhanded.
When he reveals why he\'s really there and shares a shocking secret involving the whole town, Dust won\'t be the only thing darkening Pearl\'s world.
Eddie is dangerous and he seems fixated on Pearl.
Then a mysterious man bent on revenge tramps into her town of Red River.
Pearl is proud of her loving, strong family, though she often wearies of tracking down her mentally impaired older sister or wrestling with her grandmother\'s unshakable belief in a God who Pearl just isn\'t sure she likes.
They\'re who the town turns to when there\'s a crisis or a need--and during these desperate times, there are plenty of both, even if half the town stands empty as people have packed up and moved on.
The Spences have their share of misfortune, but as the sheriff\'s family, they\'ve got more than most in this dry, desolate place.
Ten-year-old Pearl Spence is a daydreamer, playing make-believe to escape life in Oklahoma\'s Dust Bowl in 1935. - The Historical Novel Society Where you come from isn\'t who you are .
It is about hope, family, survival and faith.
An achingly beautiful tale told with a singularly fresh and original voice.
Jocelyn Green, award winning author of the Heroines Behind the Lines Civil War series The book is suspenseful and gritty with true-to-life characters.
Riveting
