When a young girl takes an interest in the talents of her small towns elderly calligrapher, Jessie, the two discover a gift that teaches them a painful lesson about averting fate. When eleven-year-old Callie Williams befriends Jessamine Colter, an elderly calligrapher, Callie becomes interested in her fancy writing and begins to learn about Jessies life as shes spent nearly fifty years being the record keeper of their small town. Using her elegant calligraphy to provide church posters, restaurant menus, school diplomas and notices of births, marriages, and deaths, Jessie has had magical hands her whole life. But when the pair discovers that they share a powerful gift that lets them see into the future by writing about events before they happen, Callie and Jessie begin to discover the pleasure and heartache that comes with rearranging fate.

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US 5th grade-9th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 10-14 years.

There are 56 pages in this book. This book was published in 2008 by Simon & Schuster .

Cynthia DeFelice is a successful children's author who lives in New York. This book was inspired by her grandfather who was apprenticed to a rural doctor at the age of twelve, and went on to become a respected surgeon.