Moon Over Manifest is about a girl named Abilene Tucker and how her father gets a job working on the railroad, sending her to the town where he grew up, Manifest, Kansas.
After hearing her father's stories of Manifest, Abilene is disappointed to find Manifest a dusty, beaten-up town.
But soon her excitement sparks up when she finds a hidden cigar box full of memos, trinkets and letters.
Some of the letters talk about a mysterious spy called the Rattler. (Cue evil music.) These letters send Abilene and her friends on a spy hunt.
But when Abilene ignores the warning and goes down the Path to Perdition, she breaks one of a diviner's pots and has to repay a debt to the Hungarian Diviner, Miss Sadie.
Miss Sadie tells stories each time Abilene visits, and soon Abilene feels closer to the town her father grew up in, and finds out who he was.
Moon Over Manifest is a great book, and a Newbery Honor Book, and it's really good. I say that about every book I review!
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