Chasing+Redbird



"Life is a bowl of spagetti...every now and then you get a meatball"

"Zinnia Taylor has looked at those words, embroidered on a sampler hanging oin her aunt Jessie's kitchen, for as long as she can remember. In her thirteen years Zinny has rummaged through the spaghetti of her life, hoping for a meatball, but often finding lumps of mud instead. Zinny lives in Bybanks, Kentucky, with too many brothers and sisters -- a mess of "tadpoles" and "pumpkins" is what her uncle Nate calls them. When Zinny discovers a mysterious, overgrown trail that begins on her family's farm, she's determened to clear it, from start to finish. She's finally found a place of her own, a place she can go, away from her family, to hear herself think. But what Zinny doesn't realize is that the mysteries of the trail are intertwined with her own spahgetti of unanswered questions and family secrets, and that the trail -- and her passion to uncover it -- is leading her on a journey home."

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