New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - A coming of age story in which an angry and resentful young girl learns to see life differently. "While staying with her country cousin, Brenda, eleven-year-old S.B. makes two new friends, with whom she discovers the value of family, friendship, and nature and averts a disaster involving a wealthy landowner and a peculiar old man." 198 pp. ISBN: 0-15200193X.