ISBN 13: 978-1-9990-249-4. Hardback, $16.99
Awards:Oprah’s Kids Reading List
2008 Book Sense Pick
2009 Thumbs Up Book Award from the Michigan Library Association
Nominee, 2008 border’s Original Voices Book Awards
Rhode Island Teen Book Award
Annotation:
Agnes and Honey are two young girls growing up inside of a religious commune. When Nana Pete takes the girls away from the commune, the girls struggle to adapt to life on the outside.
Book Talk:“When everything you’ve ever known turns out to be a lie, how do you find the truth?”
Agnes and Honey are two young friends growing up in a religious commune in Connecticut, under the spiritual guidance of Emmanuel. The girls live a plain life, with no choices, and in constant fear of having to visit the Room of Requirement.
Then one day, Nana Pete comes to visit Agnes. When Agnes’ brother Benny gets his hand caught in the front door and loses two of his fingers. Emmanuel decides that he can heal Benny himself and sews Benny’s fingers back on his hand.
Appalled at the turn of events, Nana Pete snatches Benny, Agnes, and Honey and flees the commune in the middle of the night. As the web of lies that surrounded their life in the commune begins to unravel, the girls are left wondering: is there is a place that will be safe, and where no one will ever hurt them again?
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