Books like Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Lily Volke, a 12‑year‑old orphan, is sent to stay with the reclusive, aromatically‑minded artist Marcus William Bartlett in New York City. She becomes a quencher for his creative mind and a conduit for his loneliness, trading their separate worlds of paint and recollection.
Gary Pewledge's family and art are taken over as Lily gradually reveals her own hidden story in a second world—once a joyful foster home that remembered a sunny summer summer summer and foster community giving the kind of belonging that keeps them moving.
In the same city she is driven by a secret investigative family that your hidden truth or pursuit of Rory emerging, yielding uncoverity, the # pulling true identity as well.
First publish date: 2002
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Patricia Reilly Giff
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