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The Crying Rocks
The Crying Rocks | Janet Taylor Lisle
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From Newbery Honor author Janet Taylor Lisle comes a lyrical story about one girls discovery of her startling pastand her search to understand her complicated present. Joelles height and dark skin set her apart from everyone in Marshfield. Its no secret that shes adopted, but where is she from? Aunt Mary Louise says she came from Chicago on a freight train, but the story doesnt sit right with Joelle. Theres something more. She feels it. Carlos, the quiet boy in Joelles Spanish class, sees it. When he tells her that she looks like a girl in the town librarys old mural of Narragansett Indians, Joelle cant help sneaking a look. Shes surprised by a flicker of recognition. And when Carlos tells her about the Crying Rocks, where the ghosts of Narragansett children are said to cry for their lost mothers, Joelle knows she must visit them. When they finally set out through the forest, neither she nor Carlos anticipates the power of the ancient place, or the revelations to be found thereabout the pasts theyve both buried, and the discovery of a rare kind of courage that runs deep in Joelles family.
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callielafleur
The Crying Rocks | Janet Taylor Lisle
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Opened some mail from the awesome @iheartya which contained my #lmpbc #TeamYA pick, plus two awesome gifts! Thanks lady!! ❤️

I was so excited to read everyone else's notes- they made me laugh and look at things in a different way. This was a fun book club pick, even if it wasn't the highest quality book. 😂😂 Thanks to @IheartYA @erinreads and @kamoorephoto for your great notes. @erinreads your package is on its way to you!

IheartYA Hope you like them! 😉 6y
erinreads The book wasn‘t great, but I think it made it even more fun to comment along the way! 6y
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IheartYA
The Crying Rocks | Janet Taylor Lisle
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Mehso-so

Between a so-so and a pan.

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IheartYA
The Crying Rocks | Janet Taylor Lisle
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Onto the last book of this round #lmpbc #teamya #groupQ. What do you guys think of sending an extra book or 2 as a gift for our last mailing?
@erinreads @callielafleur @kamoorephoto

kamoorephoto I‘m always down for gifts!!!! 😻🙌🏼📚 6y
callielafleur I think that sounds like a wonderful idea! ❤️ 6y
callielafleur Also, I wish this book had lived up to the gorgeous cover. 6y
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IheartYA @callielafleur Me too. I just finished it. 😕 6y
callielafleur @IheartYA I have been stressing that my snarky notes might have been too harsh... 6y
IheartYA @callielafleur I don't think so. It seems we were all on the same page. (Haha, punny.) 6y
erinreads How did I miss this post??? 😬 I‘m good with this idea, too. 👌🏻 @callielafleur @kamoorephoto 6y
kamoorephoto We are all thinking quite alike... 6y
kamoorephoto @erinreads @callielafleur @iheartya So how are we going to do the extra book thing? 6y
kamoorephoto ie. I can see Patty‘s ‘really want to read‘ shelf on Goodreads, but are they books you own? 6y
IheartYA @erinreads @callielafleur I'm looking at TBR on litsy so between that and sending a book that I like, I will pick 2 or 3. @kamoorephoto My really want to read shelf are books I do not own. 😊 6y
callielafleur @IheartYA @erinreads @kamoorephoto My Litsy TBR has books I want to read but do not own, while my Goodreads TBR is a mess that needs sorting! 😂 6y
kamoorephoto @erinreads @IheartYA @callielafleur My Goodreads is well sorted; I even have an owned shelf, just need to update my wishlist shelf. I also have a 2018-read shelf. My Litsy shelf is slim because I don‘t really use it for cataloging everything I want to-read but everything that is stuff I don‘t have but it‘s slim-pickings. It‘s best to go by Goodreads, and ask me! I‘ll update my wishlist tho because it‘s my bday soon! 😊 6y
kamoorephoto @IheartYA Your really-want-to-read shelf is up to date?? Are you sure? 6y
IheartYA @kamoorephoto Yup, it's up to date. Thx for checking. 🙂 6y
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erinreads
The Crying Rocks | Janet Taylor Lisle
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In other fun #bookmail news, received the first #LMPBC book from @callielafleur! And she included a fun bookmark for us to use while reading. 👌🏻 Excited to get to this soon and read Callie‘s thoughts along the way. #TeamYA #GroupQ

readordierachel Beautiful cover! 7y
callielafleur Yay I'm glad it got to you ok. 😁❤️ 7y
kamoorephoto I‘ll get mine out soon...remind me of everyone‘s pen colors (I‘m still blue??) ... @callielafleur @IheartYA @erinreads 7y
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kamoorephoto Am I mailing to you @erinreads 🧐 I can‘t find the email with the addresses and order.... 7y
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callielafleur
The Crying Rocks | Janet Taylor Lisle
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Mehso-so

Sending this one on its way to @erinreads for #LMPBC #round2 #TeamYA #GroupQ! I'm interested to see what everyone else thinks, I may just not have been in the right mindset for this right now. 🤷‍♀️

rubyslippersreads Lovely cover! 7y
erinreads Mine will be on its way to @kamoorephoto by late next week! I loved mine a lot, so now I have to see if you all love it as much as I did! 7y
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