Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic.

"Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but intrigued, and bored with domestic life, Mary agrees--only...

"Depicts a bud on an apple tree as it grows into an apple, ripens, is harvested, and provides seeds as a promise for the future."--

"aSonia y sus amigos siembran un jardín, y cada uno contribuye a su manera."-- "Sonia and her friends plant a garden, and each one contributes in his or her own special way, in a book that celebrates the many differences among humans."--