Sticks and Stones

Summer of 1914 -- School is out. Emma is left behind in Montana with her pet cat Licorice. When Dad and Emma's brother Len hitch horses to their wagon and take off for Oregon to earn money in a lumber camp, she promises Dad to be good. That promise is hard to keep with a strict Grandma watching her every move and her schoolmate Marvin playing tricks, spying and teasing her with silly rhymes. A war of words between Emma and Marvin escalates leading to unforeseen trouble.

Children's librarian and professional storyteller Nancy Stewart Lenz creates a middle-grade chapter book of linked stories using her mother's tales of growing up in Stevensville, a small town in Montana's Bitterroot Valley. She offers children, teachers, classrooms and families a chance to look back over 100 years through a window into the past.

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