A Coretta Scott King Author Honor and Boston Globe / Horn Book Honor winner Powerful....
Can they find the fortune and fulfill the letter\'s promise before the answers slip into the past yet again? Featuring exclusive bonus content.
The challenge will lead them deep into Lambert\'s history, full of ugly deeds, forgotten heroes, and one great love; and deeper into their own families, with their own unspoken secrets.
So with the help of Brandon, the quiet boy across the street, she begins to decipher the clues.
And the fortune that awaits the person who solves the puzzle.
A mystery enfolding its writer.
An injustice that happened decades ago.
But the letter describes a young woman.
It\'s addressed to her grandmother, who left the town in shame. -- The New York Times Book Review When Candice finds a letter in an old attic in Lambert, South Carolina, she isn\'t sure she should read it.
Johnson writes about the long shadows of the past with such ambition that any reader with a taste for mystery will appreciate the puzzle Candice and Brandon must solve.
A Coretta Scott King Author Honor and Boston Globe / Horn Book Honor winner Powerful...
