Frances Foster Books
Farrar, Straus &
Giroux
September 2009
$16.99 US
192p hc
ISBN: 978-0374316532
Crossing Stones
Helen Frost
from Macmillan...
Maybe
you won’t rock a cradle, Muriel.
Some
women seem to prefer to rock the boat.
Eighteen-year-old
Muriel Jorgensen lives on one side of Crabapple Creek. Her family’s
closest
friends, the Normans, live on the other. For as long as Muriel can
remember, the
families’ lives have been intertwined, connected by the crossing stones
that
span the water. But now that Frank Norman—who Muriel is just beginning
to
think might be more than a friend—has enlisted to fight in World War I
and her
brother, Ollie, has lied about his age to join him, the future is
uncertain. As
Muriel tends to things at home with the help of Frank’s sister, Emma,
she
becomes more and more fascinated by the women’s suffrage movement, but
she is
surrounded by people who advise her to keep her opinions to herself.
How can she
find a way to care for those she loves while still remaining true to
who she is?
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