For nearly fifty years Jessamine Colter has chronicled the life of her small town through the elegant calligraphy that she provides for church posters, restaurant menus, school diplomas, notices of birth, marriages, deaths. And in young Callie Williams, who shares her passion for "fancy writing," Jessie has found an almost-daughter to love, train, and protect. But then Jessie discovers that she has been given the power to know the future, to write about events before they happen. It is a gift that brings pleasure but also heartache to her and to Callie.

 

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

There are 56 pages in this book. This book was published 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.