Florence Crutchfield

Plot Summary: When four kids, Dicey, James, Sammy, and Maybeth Tillerman are left on their own at a mall in Conneticut, they decide to travel many miles to find their other family, whom they have never met, Aunt Cilla. After locating her house, they only want to stay together as a family, so even though the Tillermans find she isn’t there, only her daughter, they chose to stay with her for a while. Discovering that this would not be their forever home, Dicey, James, Sammy, and Maybeth journey to Crisfield, where their mother

One day, following close by, she finds them at a tomb with the name Grey on it. After falling and being heard she races back to the gate, Anton was already on his way. As she was heading back, Rebecca lost her way, tripping over broken tombs and parts of a sidewalk. However, the last time she had fallen she found Lisette. Rebecca asked for directions to the gate and Lisette helped her. Soon, Rebecca saw her at the gates when she was passing after school. Wanting to know why she was there, and why she hadn't been caught. Rebecca followed the group again. This time walking away from them, in search of

The book starts of by showing the reading with a small scene of children running along the train tacks one summer night, in this chapter we meet our two main characters nine year old Pharoah and Lafayette, as they experience one of the few peaceful days in their lives. In the next chapter we meet the children’s mother LaJoe who is described to be a beautiful, gentle woman who has been though too much. We also learn about the children home, an apartment complex known as Hery Horner Homes named after the Governor. In this chapter we also learn a bit more about LaJoe and her past life, and how she was

As the family is driving along, the grandmother awakens from a nap and recalls “an old plantation that she had visited in this neighborhood once when she was a young lady” (189). This recollection happens while the family is driving through the town of Toomsboro, GA. The grandmother is extremely manipulative and selfish and coaxes the family into visiting the old plantation by lying to them with the possibility of finding hidden treasure. The name of the town is only a slight indication of the terrible tragedy that is yet to come. It is no

Marlee watched as the first visitor approached the door from the upstairs window. He was sitting upstairs cooking shrimp in a pot of oil. He was kind of confused to see a crazed person approach the abandon house at 9 p.m. This visitor looked old and weary. It was an old lady who was carrying a purse, while she was walking up to the house she took out a key like she lived there. Marlee was so scared he thought he was in the wrong house. He quickly called Max and told him to get over to the house right away! The old lady walked inside and started to walk up the stairs. She soon opens the creaky door who reveals frightened Marlee sitting in a boxy chair in the corner. Thats when she started screaming at the top of her lungs, her head was turning red like a cherry, it looked like her head was going to explode. Marlee took off running.

Allie Maples has a sparkle in her emerald eyes that draws men the way buttermilk draws flies on a hot summer day. She is bright, self-assured, and beautiful. Even though she has not yet turned sixteen, she knows exactly what she wants out of life. Her ideal life is not, confined to a plantation as its mistress; she wants the exotic, she wants mystery, she wants travel and adventure. However, when Allie travels to Charleston, South Carolina with her mother to visit relatives at Christmas, in the year 1860, the last thing she expects is to meet and fall in love with a handsome young Yankee.

She becomes more suspicious of John and his motives. She also believes the women in the wallpaper is real. When she looks out her window she can see the woman creeping outside in the garden around the hedges. On the last day though I believe she is unable to tell what is real and what is a fantasy. She locks herself in her room, throwing the key out the window so nobody can get in. She starts to tear down the wallpaper trying to free the woman she believes is in there. Being cautious though because she wants to capture her using the rope she hid in her room. As she continues to pull the wallpaper off she gets angry and considers jumping out the window but says the bars are too strong to even try. She ties the rope around herself and begins to creep around the room. Wondering to herself if all the women came out of the wallpaper like she did.

When Moody was about four years old she was a young African-American girl who lived on “Mr. Carter’s plantation along with her mother, her father and her then baby sister Adline. At that age Moody barely saw her parents because they would leave in the early morning just before daylight and come back home late in the afternoon. While her parents were away Moody and her younger sister were watched over by George Lee, their mother’s eight year old brother. Lee would mistreat the girls especially Anne. He would beat her for reasons that were out of Anne’s control. One afternoon, George set fire to the family’s home and blamed Anne for the accident. She is punished by her father for an act she did not commit. These events start to foreshadow the injustice that Anne will go through throughout her life.

Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Roberts was born on December 27, 1943. She was best known as a journalist and an author. She wrote about women and their stories. Cokie Roberts is also known as a political commentator for ABC News. Her parents were the ones that influenced her to write. Her father served in World War and he later became a Politian just like his wife. Cokie Roberts is a very famous historian and I hope that other people can learn about her

Creepy visitations abound. Marlin says Laura was mad and hanged herself after Jonathan locked her; the house uses the children to turn the women mad to death. Alice increases her efforts to become Laura, scaring the children. Mrs Rackstile urges Jonathan to get rid of her. He burns Laura’s belongings and has Alice locked in her room.

Whenever she walks through the doors alone, it is showing her entering into the business market as a monopoly. When she walks further in, and takes her drink, it was like they were welcoming her into the world of business. She begins to talk about how she has trials and tribulations to get to where she is going to. This could be explained with a financial crisis like she was going through herself because she was not able to have the money to get the building that she wanted. When she pushed the ladder back up to the man who was falling, it had shown how she was not going to let anything stop her from making it to the

This book is set in western Wisconsin in the year of 1864. At the beginning of the book Caddie Woodlawn is outside playing with her brothers, Tom and Warren. When they return home they meet the Circus Rider, who is a pastor that travels from town to town.

Once upon a time in a cottage at the end of the woods lived a young girl, her name was Little Red Riding Hood. Well, actually her name was Sarah, but her grandmother had given her a beautiful riding hood for her birthday and the nickname just stuck. Her grandfather was a huntsman and his work kept him away from home a lot. Because of this, the young girl’s grandparents moved into the woods so her grandfather didn’t have to leave her grandmother so often. Little did he know she really didn’t mind being left alone. . .

Margret Ann Brady is an orphan who's parents died a when she was young.After her parents death she was sent to live in an orphanage,she is always dreaming about her brother William who lives in America working as a bricklayer in Boston.All of a sudden her life changes and she meets a wealthy woman named Mrs.Carstairs who is planning to go to the USA.She asks Margret if she is prepared for the challenge any Margret says yes.One day when Margret is walking she sees her brother William she told him that she is coming to America soon and intorduces him to Mrs Carstairs and tells him “she will be taking me on the ship”.

At one point she will be mean and want to kill James, but then the next minute she feels like nobody loved her. “She paused a moment to allow me to imagine. “And then”, she said, “imagine I stand here beside you, a living girl, telling you the sad story of my brothers death.” (Hahn 113) At this point in time, they are all on the roof and Sophia is trying to convince James to walk on the chimney. If James would have listened to her and obeyed her command James would have been dead because Sophia would have pushed him. This just goes to show that Sophia had a mindset of killing James, she didn’t care if people thought it was Florence she just wanted James dead. On the same day after they went inside when uncle and aunt wanted a doctor to come examine James, Sophia said “I wanted someone to love me the way they loved James,” she sobbed. “That’s all! If he hadn't been here, maybe someone would have loved me. But no, he took everyone’s love and left me nothing. Nothing, nothing at all!” (Hahn 133) When she was saying this she sounded like she still wanted to kill James but felt bad for herself more than thinking about James. The reader would probably be thinking that the reason that she has all of these negative thoughts is because all she wanted was attention. When she was bad people would talk to her but when she was quiet and didn’t say anything then people would ignore