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until she tells a lie that sets her on a crash course with her past

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and a portrait of early-twentieth-century America like you’ve never seen

"A charming work sure to spark a lifelong habit of looking closely at the natural world

carry bitter secrets

Candle Island Neena Laskowski until she tells a lieA moving portrait of loss and the restorative power of art from Lauren Wolk, the Newbery Honor winning author of Beyond the Bright Sea. Lucretia Sanderson has a secret. Lucretia and her mother have come to tiny Candle Island, Maine (Population: Summer, 986; Winter, 315) to escape escape memories of the car accident that killed her father and escape the journalists that hound her mother, a famous and reclusive artist. The rocky coast and ocean breeze