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Text copyright © 2003 by Janet Taylor Lisle
Cover illustrations copyright © 2017 by Shana Torok
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lisle, Janet Taylor.
The crying rocks / Janet Taylor Lisle.—1st ed.
p. cm.
“A Richard Jackson Book.”
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Joelle has always wondered about her life before being adopted by the woman she calls Aunt Mary Louise and her husband, Vernon, and she makes some surprising discoveries while researching a seventeenth-century Indian tribe.
ISBN 0-689-85319-X
[1. Orphans—Fiction. 2. Identity—Fiction. 3. Fathers and daughters—Fiction. 4. Indians of North America—Rhode Island—Fiction. 5. Rhode Island—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7 .L6912Cr 2003
[Fic]—dc21 20020151484
ISBN 978-1-4814-9697-1 (hc)
ISBN 978-1-4814-7976-9 (pbk)
ISBN 978-1-4814-7977-6 (eBook)