The Song of the Blue Bottle TreeDisguised by years in exile and a name she found on a gravestone, an unconventional young woman returns to her childhood home in rural 1967 Arkansas in this hauntingly visceral Southern tale of desperate choices, found family, folk magic and family ghosts. Genevieve Charbonneau talks to ghosts and has a special relationship with rattlesnakes. In her travels, she's wandered throughout the South, working in a Louisiana circus and as a hootchy kootch

He is a humble man

it’s clear that Kat’s skill for finding reason in what seems like randomness makes her the perfect candidate to lead the job

she realizes that she is not the only one whose future is no longer guaranteed

Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D

an unlikely hero emerges

dizzying plot twists

The Walls children learned to take care of themselves

the girl he loves

lifting up my hands

The store's security guard

Hansel and Gretel

Exercises both vocabulary and spelling skills