Ashleigh Bell Pedersen

"Set during the swampy summer in 1982, this stunning debut novel follows eleven-year-old Sunshine Turner and her troubled father Billy as the secrets of their family's past swirl around them in the one-road town of Fingertip, Louisiana. During a hot summer of June moods, grubworms, and dark storms, Sunshine discovers stones in her chest--and learns the dangers her coming-of-age will bring about in the yellow house she shares with her father. Without...