Twelve year old Abilene Tucker has lived her entire riding the rails, but one summer her father sends her to Manifest, Missouri where he lived many years before to stay with an old friend of his named Shady. Abilene is curious to see what it was like when her father lived here and realizes there is a lot of mystery surrounding the towns past. She sets out on a journey with some new friends and a diviner named Miss Sadie to figure it out. This book does a very good job of mixing history with fiction. The story switches back and forth from 1936 to 1917-1918. It weaves in the great depression, the KKK, prohibition, etc. Abilene is a very matter of fact straighfoward person who is used to looking out for herself and it definitely comes across in this book. I would recommend this book to any of my students.
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