Two overlapping storylines tell the story of two young girls living in Manifest, Kansas. One story line told by Abilene Tucker, when she meets Miss Sadie who tells her about a boy named Jinx, which leads to Abilene and her friends going on a spy mission. Abilene’s story overlaps with Miss Sadie’s...
She was talking to me. It was the way she’d said Well, there you are that struck me. She didn’t say, Who are you? or Who have we here? or even Look what the cat dragged in.No, it was There you are, as if she’d been calling me, looking for me, waiting for me, for a long time.“Come on,” she beckone...