<p><b>From the Back Cover</b><br><p><br />"How about a story? Spin us a yarn." <br />Instantly, Phoebe Winterbottom came to mind. "I could tell you an extensively strange story," I warned.<br />"Oh, good!" Gram said. "Delicious!"<br />And that is how I happened to tell them about Phoebe, her disappearing mother, and the lunatic.</p><p>As Sal entertains her grandparents with Phoebe's outrageous story, her own story begins to unfold--the story of a thirteen-year-old girl whose only wish is to be reunited with her missing mother.</p><p>In her own award-winning style, Sharon Creech intricately weaves together two tales, one funny, one bittersweet, to create a heartwarming, compelling, and utterly moving story of love, loss, and the complexity of human emotion.</p></p>