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240 pages.
Summary: Bastienne Scull is a young orphan who lives with Lodyma Darsey, the local Witnesser of Miracles, who investigates what's behind miraculous events and spins them into stories she tells at the night markets in exchange for food. After Lodyma's husband and oldest son died of a sickness that continues to sweep the land, Lodyma sent her 15-year-old son Osmin into the hills to live with the mountain men. That was ten years ago and she doesn't know if he's alive or dead. And she's taken Bastienne as an apprentice to fill the void of her lost family. One day, two young boys arrive in town asking Lodyma to go on a mysterious mission to a monastery. And when Lodyma and Bastienne arrive, what they discover will change their lives.
Ages 9-13.