Twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal and her younger brother must move with their invalid mother from New York City to their great-grandmother\'s farm in the Virginia mountains.
When a dark, destructive force encroaches on her new home, her struggle will play out in a crowded Virginia courtroom...and determine the future of two children, an entire town, and the mountains they love..
Suddenly Lou finds herself growing up in a new landscape, making her first true friend, and experiencing adventures tragic, comic, and audacious.
Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on their great-grandmother\'s farm in the Virginia mountains.
Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family.
Following a family tragedy, siblings Lou and Oz must leave New York and adjust to life in the Virginia mountains--but just as the farm begins to feel like home, they\'ll have to defend it from a dark threat in this New York Times bestselling coming-of-age story.
When the forces of greed and justice clash, their struggle plays out in a crowded Virginia courtroom.
Twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal and her younger brother must move with their invalid mother from New York City to their great-grandmother\'s farm in the Virginia mountains
