The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories

The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other StoriesBy: Sarah Orne Jewett A rich collection of classic American literature potraying the beauty of a 19th century New England town. A female writer comes one summer to Dunnet Landing, a Maine seacoast town, where she follows the lonely inhabitants of once prosperous coastal communities. Here, lives are molded by the long Maine winters, rock filled fields and strong resourceful women. Throughout Sarah Orne Jewetts novel and stories, these quiet tales of a

Felix must find his father

All Ben and Eileen want is for Helen to beat the odds and survive for one more summer so that she can have one chance to swim in the ocean on the family's annual trip to Prince Edward Island

her strength

Sounds easy…right

a cat lady

and Where Is Baby's Belly Button

As the case unfolds

kelp beds are thick and healthy

unless one lone Jedi

and the curse that has haunted her from birth—that on the day of her sixteenth birthday she would prick her finger on a spindle and cause everyone in the castle to fall into a 100-year sleep

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awkward crushes