The carriage bounced and shook so that I feared a wheel might come loose. Robert, the carriage driver, rushed through it fast, the collar of his greatcoat half hiding his face, his gaze fixed on the road. It had seemed to me at first to be filled with gaiety. And then there’d been the strangeness of the last village we’d gone through, where all the shops and houses were brightly lit, people stood around the street, music played loudly through the open doors of one of the establishments. The journey had been tiring and difficult. We’d traveled through wind and rain that grew fiercer the closer we got to the coast. Though an orphan, I would have a family again. But I told myself to be brave and to consider myself fortunate to have an aunt and uncle to go to. It was sad and strange to think of myself as an orphan now that my parents had died. I’d taken two traps, a coach, and a carriage to get here from my old, beloved home in Edinburgh. Persistence and determination drive her to uncover the town’s horrifying secret-a conspiracy to wreck and plunder ships-despite obstacles natural and supernatural.-Provided by publisher. Summary: In early 19th century England, Josie, 16, finds herself in a sinister place with mysterious, hostile people, including her own relatives. The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to or to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10016.Ĭlarion Books is an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.Ĭover photograph © 2015 by Tom Gatton/TommyVon Photography She has published stories in both Cricket, and Jack and Jill Magazines, and has written over 150 books in various genres such as children's books, contemporary, historic and realistic fiction, poetry, nonfiction and humor.Special thanks to Professor Andrea KarlinĬopyright © 2015 by Edward D. Bunting is involved in many writer's organizations such as P.E.N., The Authors Guild, the California Writer's Guild and the Society of Children's Book Writers. "Smokey Night" won the American Library Association's Randolph Caldecott Medal in 1995 and "Winter's Coming" was voted one of the 10 Best Books of 1977 by the New York Times. In 1976, "One More Flight" won the Golden Kite Medal, and in 1978, "Ghost of Summer" won the Southern California's Council on Literature for Children and Young People's Award for fiction. That same year, she began her writing career, and in 1972, her first book, "The Two Giants" was published. She emigrated with her family in 1958 to California, and became a naturalized citizen in 1969. She graduated from Northern Ireland's Methodist College in Belfast in 1945 and then studied at Belfast's Queen's College.
Eve Bunting was born in 1928 in Maghera, Ireland, as Anne Evelyn Bunting.
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