Thanks to Tad, whose ancestor was an avid botanist who went missing in the Okefenokee Swamp but whose journal survives, Piper learns that there's a myth among the local indigenous peoples of a flower with amazing healing properties - cue the quest to go into the swamp to follow the tracks of Dr. The reasons for this aren't revealed until fairly late in the story, and I found them a rather flimsy justification, but that's not really the focus of the tale.Īnyway: things are trundling along in this rather awkward way when there's a crisis - baby sister Grace has fallen ill, gravely so, with no hope of a cure. She's also more distant from her family, including her somewhat-pesty little brother (fondly known as Creeper for his ability to climb trees) and her baby sister (whom she used to dote on). Īs the story proper kicks in, a year after the events of the prologue, the formerly-outdoorsy and affable Piper, age 14, is now solidly in with the "mean girls" clique of beauty-pageant princesses, much to the shock of her longtime friend Tad. The story opens with a family on vacation, where they encounter a plague of rabies-infected creatures - but that's just the intro they escape that without any physical damage, though the emotional toll on our heroine Piper is quite high. I got this softcover from Better World Books.
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