A reminder that love is something we never lose. Magically the rains camey, and though never really having left town, the three complete a journey of the soul. 13 year-old Martha Glimmer is convinced this is the worst time of her life. So it was, the three buddies decide to run away. new tale of enchantment from best-selling master storyteller Alice Hoffman. And, while everybody in town celebrates brilliant, rainless days, for 13 year-old Martha Glimmer the very daily sameness seemed to freeze the grief of her mother's death for both herself and her father. That is, except two brothers, known as Trout and Eel for their darting quickness and the mysterious webbing between their fingers and toes the boys dream of the farthest seas and a hazy magical past. The dry and dusty town of Oak Grove, haunted by a past flood, is a place where everybody dreads water. Shimmering with the incandescence and irresistible magic of the novels of Alice. Borrowing novelist and author Alice Hoffman's (1952 -) words, this is a "modern fairy tale about three children who are lost before they every leave home".
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