The Crying Rocks

Lisle, Janet Taylor

ISBN 10: 068985319X / ISBN 13: 9780689853197

Published by Atheneum, 2003

About this Item

DJ will be clean and have at most light wear. Book will have been read but remains in excellent condition. Clean and tight binding. Cover may show slight wear. Contents will be clean and free from markings.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Crying Rocks
• Publisher: Atheneum
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 068985319X
• ISBN 13: 9780689853197
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

Having been abandoned as a child with no explanation of her past, Joelle is intrigued when a classmate tells her that she looks like a girl in a painting of the Narragansett Indians of Rhode Island and so begins to look into their history and the story of the Crying Rocks to see if she is possibly connected to this tribe.

About the Author

Janet Taylor Lisle's novels for young readers include five selected as Best Books of the Year by School Library Journal: Sirens and Spies, The Lampfish of Twill, Forest, A Message from the Match Girl (from the Investigators of the Unknown series), and Afternoon of the Elves, a Newbery Honor Book. Her most recent title for Atheneum is The Art of Keeping Cool, a Horn Book Fanfare title and winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction.

She lives with her family on the coast of Rhode Island.