BOOKS - Promises to Keep
Promises to Keep - Ann Tatlock January 1, 2011 PDF  BOOKS
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Promises to Keep
Author: Ann Tatlock
Year: January 1, 2011
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.6 MB
Language: English

Eleven-year-old Roz (Rosalind) Anthony and her family have just moved to Mills River, Illinois, to escape an abusive situation. Only days after settling into their new home, they are surprised to find the previous owner, Tillie Monroe, on their front porch reading the newspaper. Though her sons have sold the house and sent her to a facility for the aged, she is determined to die in the place she lived her life, and somehow manages to find her way and "home and " day after day. Feeling sympathy for the elderly woman, Roz's mother allows Tillie to move back in.Mara Nightingale becomes Roz's first friend in Mills River. In spite of their many differences, the girls discover they have something in common that binds them together - both are hiding secrets. So they make a promise - and "cross my heart and hope to die and " - never to tell anyone else.When danger stalks the Anthonys, Tillie exhibits unimaginable courage and selfless love in her determination to protect the family she has adopted as her own.

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