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Flor and her best friend Sylvie live on a small island in a great lake. An island so small, it’s barely more than a lump of limestone. So miniscule that when the ferries shut down and the summer people leave, fewer than two hundred people live there. Flor and Sylvie are the only eleven-year-olds for watery miles and miles. How wonderful is that? In Flor’s opinion, very.
Until very bad things begin to happen. Sylvie is mysteriously whisked away to school on the mainland. Flor’s mother leaves the island to care for a sick grandmother and doesn’t come back. Flor’s big sister is keeping a secret, and Flor’s afraid it’s a dangerous one. And then there’s the peculiar geologist and his even more peculiar daughter who arrive and begin excavating the abandoned quarry…
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