At her grandparents' North Carolina mountain home during the summer of 1963, grief-stricken after the death of her newborn sister and isolated by her mother's deepening depression, eleven-year-old Annie Winters finds comfort holding an oblong stone she calls her "rock baby" and befriends a reclusive mountain woman with a devastating secret.
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Parents' Choice, January 2009 Wilson's Junior High School, October 2010 School Library Journal, December 2009 Booklist, July 2009 Horn Book, April 2010 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), October 2009 Kirkus Review, August 2009 Parents' Choice Wilson's Junior High School School Library Journal
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