Light at Summer's End

It’s a hot Georgia afternoon, and Melissa has been dumped at a stranger’s house for the entire summer...just because she’s in the way at home. Worse, Miss Vellie, the owner of the farm, lives alone. Melissa is sure she’ll be bored to death. Then Melissa discovers that Miss Vellie didn’t even know she was coming!

Melissa cries herself to sleep the first night...and the next....and the next. Is Melissa just homesick, or is there something deeper going on? What on earth can an angry fourteen-year-old and a retired English teacher have in common?