Shady takes Abilene into town where she meets Hattie Mae, the writer of a column in the local paper whom she is aware of because of a copy of the local paper her father has carried around all these years.
As Abilene ponders this, Shady Howard comes up behind her. Abilene knows what perdition means because she and Gideon have often gotten free meals in various churches while on the road. Abilene walks along the road and comes across a gate that says Perdition. However, Abilene is confident that Gideon will return before the end of summer to get her.Ībilene jumps off the train before it pulls into the station, having learned from Gideon that a person should see a town before it has a chance to see her. Abilene is confused over her father's sudden need to send her away, a need that recently came between them after Abilene nearly died from an infection in a cut on her knee. Gideon has sent Abilene to live with Shady Howard, an old friend of his from his childhood that Abilene never knew about.
Moon Over Manifest is a touching story of one girl who learns to be a child even as she discovers what it means to be an adult with too much responsibility.Ībilene Tucker has grown up on the rails, moving from town to town with her father, Gideon, until recently. This mystery, however, will reveal more than the identity of a spy as Abilene finds her place in Manifest. To keep her occupied, Abilene attempts to unravel a mystery apparent in a group of letters she finds hidden in the room she is living in in the home of her father's friend, Shady Howard. Abilene is unhappy being separated from her father and hopes that he will return for her before the end of summer. In this novel, Abilene Tucker has been sent to stay with friends of her father in Manifest, Kansas in 1936. Moon Over Manifest is a novel by author Clare Vanderpool.
0 kommentar(er)
