In her own singularly beautiful style, Newbery Medal winner Sharon
Creech intricately weaves together two tales, one funny, one
bittersweet, to create a heartwarming, compelling, and utterly moving
story of love, loss, and the complexity of human emotion.
Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle, proud of her country roots and
the "Indian-ness in her blood," travels from Ohio to Idaho with her
eccentric grandparents. Along the way, she tells them of the story of
Phoebe Winterbottom, who received mysterious messages, who met a
"potential lunatic," and whose mother disappeared.
As Sal entertains her grandparents with Phoebe's outrageous story, her
own story begins to unfold--the story of a thirteen-year-old girl whose
only wish is to be reunited with her missing mother.