By: Kathryn Lasky
Harper Collins Publishing
Jerry has been passed from Catholic school to Catholic orphanage and back again. Finally a relative is located in New Mexico, an ancient, interesting relative named Constanza de Luna. Apart from the old family traditions that seem bizarre and totally mundane Jerry sees nothing wrong with her great great aunt Costanza, the thing that Jerry has a problem with is the dark cellar; for some reason Jerry feels there are dark family secrets being ignored in that trunk in the cellar. Finally when Jerry is beckoned down the cellar steps by some unknown power to explore the foreboding trunk she finds the key to the past in a powerful way.
Personal Review
I was a little skeptical of this novel when I started but thank goodness I did. I found that I wanted to go straight home and find out my own families path from the past. We never think about how we got where we are. I know many stories from my family's past but I don't know why we migrated where we did or if there was more to the story than what great great great grandma wrote in her journal. I loved this story and how is literally sucked you, making it impossible to escape.
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