Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
“Bootleggers, train-hoppers, coal miners, fortune tellers, conmen, firecrackers! 2011 Newberry Winner Moon Over Manifest has it all! Rough-and-tumble pre-teen Abilene Tucker arrives in the mixing-pot town of Manifest, Kansas (1936) fated to collect their heartbreaking, heartening and madcap stories and to unearth her own enigmatic family history. With the help of a box full of …