Magnolia Grace never wanted to leave Georgia and move with her mama to the farm her daddy owned before he died. But now here she is, in a tiny Vermont town where everybody sings the praises of the father Maggie never knew. Then Maggie meets the Parker familytwo moms, six kids, plus a pony named Sassy Pants. The Parkers are loud and wild, and they dont follow any of the rules Maggie grew up with in Georgia. They get to swim in the river and go on sleigh rides, and to them, no question is off-limits. Suddenly Maggie has questions, tooquestions about her father, and why Mama kept him away for so long. In her search for answers, Maggie will learn that home is much more than where the heart is, and that families are like patchwork quilts, sewn together by love, and all the more beautiful for their different colors.

 

 

This book has been graded for interest at 8 years.

There are 272 pages in this book. This book was published in 2017 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc .

Nanci Turner Steveson grew up with a book in one hand and the reins of a pony in the other. She wrote her first "novel" at the age of nine, about a wild horse named Liberty. Nanci is a theater stage manager, riding instructor, and reading fairy to children. The mother of two grown sons, Nanci lives in a meadow in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with assorted horses and dogs, and is dedicated to getting books into the hands of homeless people through her Literacy for Hope project.