Washoe County Library System

"War-torn Afghanistan could not seem farther from Newfoundland, but it is about to change twelve-year-old tomboy Jack Cooper (or Jacqueline), as her mother insists on calling her) forever. When her father is killed in the war, she watches helplessly as her mother crumbles under sorrow and depression..."

For those who know that something is going on The witnesses are legion, scattered across the world and dotted through history, people who looked up and saw something impossible lighting up the night sky. What those objects were, where they came from, and whoor whatmight be inside them is the subject of fierce debate and equally fierce mockery, so that most who glimpsed them came to wish they hadnt. Most, but not everyone. Among those who know what...