Central Kansas Library System

Pinky and Rex are seven years old. One day, Pinky can't find Rex. After Rex attends a wedding, she has a great idea. If Rex and Pinky get married, they will never have to spend another day apart.

In 1849, a twelve-year-old girl who calls herself Lucy is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town, where Lucy helps run a rough boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way to get "home."

A young girl discovers the beauty and dangers of markers.