Katie sees ghosts. She visits with her father's ghost almost every night. She is a talented artist and often draws the ghosts she sees. She has become an outcast at school. Kids say she's crazy. She hasn't learned how to deal with her mother's death...or her father's abandonment. Law Walker has always admired Katie and would have asked her to the seventh grade dance if he hadn't feared his Harvard professor father's displeasure. His father is black and believes whites have reparations yet to make for slavery. His mother is white and a well-respected landscape architect. She is trying to save a historic Boston home - Pinebank, the first use of terra-cotta brick in the United States. Law's father wants the house leveled as the owner, Perkins, was a slaver. The house holds secrets which Katie is determined to reveal.
"Our lives are but feathers in the wind."
"I wonder if that's what art is for. Making things not so awful."
Food - Katie tries to make a pumpkin pie from scratch for Christmas dinner. She discovers that the insides of a pumpkin are gross, have to be baked, mashed, baked again...and she doesn't even want to discuss the pie crust. Her finished product is gray and black and unappetizing. She resorts to frozen pie shells and canned pumpkin. Her stepfather's girlfriend's idea of Christmas dinner is frozen string beans, frozen squash, microwaved mashed potatoes, and turkey. Hopefully, we all have much better Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners than Katie and her family!
Gateway Award Preliminary Nominee 2012-13
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