13-year-old Florida born Jordan Calley is about to visit her relatives in Newfoundland and Labrador, a place where she is as likely to find codfish drying on the clothesline as she is shirts? She certainly has her doubts about this place until she decides to check it out for herself. After arriving on the island, Jordan meets her great-grandfather for the first time. She finds that Poppy is unlike any of her other relatives. She is quite intrigued by his unique accent. Then there is the basement workshop where he keeps a ...
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13-year-old Florida born Jordan Calley is about to visit her relatives in Newfoundland and Labrador, a place where she is as likely to find codfish drying on the clothesline as she is shirts? She certainly has her doubts about this place until she decides to check it out for herself. After arriving on the island, Jordan meets her great-grandfather for the first time. She finds that Poppy is unlike any of her other relatives. She is quite intrigued by his unique accent. Then there is the basement workshop where he keeps a set of green antique dishes from the old Reed Newfoundland railway. Each time she visits Poppy in the basement, she notices that another dish has disappeared. Then, too, there is the illusive figure that keeps appearing and disappearing and those mysterious shadows that lurk in the moonlit pathway causing Lucky to bark each night, right on schedule. As Jordan searches for the answers to these mysteries, she becomes involved with a troubled young boy, and a very intriguing culture that is a huge part of her heritage.
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