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After her father’s death, a girl adjusts to life away from the river she loves The river is where Lily’s father taught her to fish; it is where she played all summer; it is what sang her to sleep at night in their cabin. But when her father dies while fishing, it is the river that Lily blames. Unable to make ends meet, she and her mother sell their cabin and move into town to live above the family hardware store. Even though she’s angry, the river keeps calling her home. With a pair of wire cutters she borrowed from the store, Lily snips the fence that’s keeping her out of their old property. Living in their cabin is a mysterious man named T. R. Tracy, a veteran who lost his legs in the war. Together they bond over the river, and together they will learn to forgive. From School Library JournalGrade 4-6-Twelve-year-old Lily Star moves from her family's rural 40 acres on the Sandy River to a small apartment over the hardware store in town following her mother's sale of the land to the mysterious T. R. Tracy. Lily is terribly attached to her previous home and connects its loss with the loss of her father, who died a year earlier. After their initial suspicions of one another, she and

Author
Gloria Whelan
Publisher
Open Road Media Teen & Tween
Published
1999
Language
EN
ISBN
9781497673892

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