Sweet Harmony

Sweet Harmony, the first in the Sweet Harmony Trilogy
Harmony, Minnesota, 1937
Iris Andersen, protagonist, turns thirteen. Her two sisters are Merry Columbine, nine, and Martha Rose, three. Her parents left Richmond, Virginia, Iris’s real home, and moved to Harmony, Minnesota, a farming community. Iris had no say in this life changing event.
An Ojibway healing woman, who becomes “family” to the Andersens. Earl Runs-Like-Fox, and his son, Oscar, win their way into the Andersen hearts...and Iris's. Month by month, Iris moves
closer to and farther away from her idea of home. Iris witnesses her first blizzard, and tornado. She cares for her sister who has Scarlet Fever, she is frightened by her mother's depression, saddened by her grandfather's death, wary of new friends, and enemies, and she feels responsible for her little sister who gets in more trouble than ten little boys. A July adventure goes awry in a cave. After one year, her parents decide to return to their home in the South. They aren't prepared for the community that will not give up on them.