The Parker Inheritance
“Powerful…Johnson writes about the long shadows of the past with such ambition that any reader with a taste for mystery will appreciate the puzzle Candice and Brandon must solve.”
New York Times Book Review
A 2019 ALA Odyssey Award Honor Book for Excellence in Audiobook Production
A Coretta Scott King Award Honor Book
A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honoree
An NPR Best Book of the Year
A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Selection
A School Library Journal Best Book of 2018
One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of the Year
Parents Magazine’s
Parents Magazine’s
The Westing Game meets The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 in a stirring mystery of past and present, as two kids search for a place in their families, city, and country.
The letter waits in a book, in a box, in an attic, in an old house in Lambert, South Carolina. It's waiting for Candice Miller. When Candice finds the letter, she isn't sure she should read it. It's addressed to her grandmother, after all, who left Lambert in a cloud of shame. But the letter describes a young woman named Siobhan Washington. An injustice that happened decades ago. A mystery enfolding the letter-writer. And the fortune that awaits the person who solves the puzzle.
Grandma tried and failed. But now Candice has another chance. So with the help of Brandon Jones, the quiet boy across the street, she begins to decipher the clues in the letter. The challenge will lead them deep into Lambert's history, full of ugly deeds, forgotten heroes, and one great love; and deeper into their own families, with their own unspoken secrets. Can they find the fortune and fulfill the letter's promise before the summer ends?
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