Elba carries the black block of grief and sadness wherever she goes--until Norris comes along and helps her to let go of the block and enjoy life again.
India, an unusual nine-and-a-half-year-old living in small-town Maine, has a series of adventures which bring her closer to her artist-mother, strengthen her friendship with a neighbor boy, and help her to accept the man for whom her father moved away.
Elba carries the black block of grief and sadness wherever she goes--until Norris comes along and helps her to let go of the block and enjoy life again.
Thirteen-year-old Aggie Wing documents the events of her summer in Ludwig, Maine, where she and her brother stay with their ninety-one-year-old grandfather while their mother, a writer of romance novels, is away doing research.
