Yet it took Zoe a long time to the dots between this stoneword and her first childhood friend, Zoe Louise. The name was the only word left on a particular crumbling gravestone, no last name or dates. She didn't know anyone buried there-they'd all been dead for over a hundred years-but my mother would walk through the grass, trailing her silk scarf, with her large straw hat shading her empty eyes, and she'd pause at each stone and read the words out loud." (page 2)Zoe was named after one of these gravestones. Like she has this one cemetery on the island she loved. Jessie, who would visit once or twice a year, was eccentric and flighty to say the least: Zoe's mom, Jessie, took Zoe to live with her Grandma and PopPop at the age of four. The publishing date and sticker are clues that I probably read this book between the ages of 8 and 10, around the main character's age. Would it still hold that same magic for me years later? It definitely does.
My copy of Stonewords has a tattered cover, yellowing pages, and a Lisa Frank sticker inside the back cover. But in changing the past, must she also change the present? If she saves her friend's life, will she lose Zoe Louise forever?īest friends, ghosts, time travel and a rickety old staircase-it's the magical ingredients for the adorable plot of Stonewords: A Ghost Story. I must admit, I read this book with a complete bias.I remember loving it as a child. To do so, she must travel back one hundred years in time and somehow alter the past. Time is running out for Zoe's best friend-and Zoe is the only one who can help her. And although Zoe Louise never grows up, she is changing in dreadful, frightening ways.
From that day on-living in the same house, separated by a staircase and a century-Zoe and Zoe Louise have been an important and permanent part of each other's lives. The first time Zoe met Zoe Louise, Zoe was four years old.
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