It\'s a boring, hardscrabble life for three sisters growing up on a Michigan farm in the throes of the Great Depression.
Narrated by Nellie and her two older sisters, the story follows the girls as they encounter a patchwork of threatening circumstances and take it upon themselves to solve the mystery..
But, when young Nellie, digging for pirate treasure, discovers the tiny blue-black hand of a dead baby, rumors begin to fly.
It\'s a boring, hardscrabble life for three sisters growing up on a Michigan farm in the throes of the Great Depression