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“I just spent the morning with the prickly, feisty, outspoken, altogether splendid Georgie Burkhardt of Amy Timberlake’s terrific new novel, One Came Home. The book is an adventure, a mystery, and a love song to the natural world. I didn’t get out of bed until I had finished the delicious last page: “I say let all the earth be alive and overwhelmingly so...Let me feel how I bump up against every other living thing on this earth. Let me learn to spin.’
Run out and read it. Right now.”

— Karen Cushman, Newbery Medalist

ONE CAME HOME_Newbery copy.jpg — *"So it comes to this*, I remember thinking on Wednesday, June 7th, 1871. ...

... The date sticks in my mind because it was the day of my sister's first funeral and I knew it wasn't her last -- which is why I left. That's the long and short of it. But surely, you'd rather hear the long than the short," says Georgie Burkhardt, as she begins telling her tale in *One Came Home*.
Everyone assumes the worst when the sheriff returns to town with an unidentified body wearing Agatha's blue-green dress.
Except her sister, Georgie. Refusing to believe the facts that are laid down (and coffined) before her, Georgie sets out on a journey to find her sister. She will track every last clue and shred of evidence to bring Agatha home. Yet even with resolute determination and her trusty Springfield single-shot, Georgie is not prepared for what she faces on the western frontier.
From Amy Timberlake comes a journey filled with adventure and mystery -- set against the thunderous beating wings of wild pigeons.

One Came HomE begins...

Chapter One

So it comes to this, I remember thinking on Wednesday, June 7, 1871. The date sticks in my mind because it was the day of my sister's first funeral and I knew it wasn't her last -- which was why I left. That's the long and short of it.

But surely, you'd rather hear the long than the short.

(Read the full excerpt here.)

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