Snowbirds

Crissa Chappell

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781507200698
• eBook ISBN: 9781507200704

This “absorbing mystery” (School Library Journal) for young adult readers follows a teenager searching for answers after her Amish friend disappears.

Every year, Lucy waits eagerly for the arrival of the “snowbirds,” the Old Order Amish who come trundling into Florida on buses from the north, bringing Lucy’s best friend Alice, with whom she’s spent every winter she can remember. This winter is different. At sixteen, Alice is in the middle of Rumspringa, a season in which Amish teens try out forbidden temptations, in order to get them out of their system. Lucy is part of a different sect, in which teens aren’t allowed such bold experimentation, and she’s fighting to keep up as Alice races from one wild party to the next.

Then, one night after just such a party, Alice vanishes. Wracked by guilt, Lucy knows that she should have been watching out for Alice, but instead, she was kissing Faron, an Older Order boy shunned by his society. Now, Lucy plunges into a search for her best friend—while also hiding her own secret, which could put her in even more danger.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• chapter one: pinecraft
• chapter two: rumspringa
• chapter three: floating
• chapter four: water tower park
• chapter five: sunrise
• chapter six: low tide
• chapter seven: keeping secrets
• chapter eight: head in the clouds
• chapter nine: words and pictures
• chapter ten: ghosts
• chapter eleven: pearls
• chapter twelve: deep water
• chapter thirteen: princesses
• chapter fourteen: rotten fruit
• chapter fifteen: breaking the rules
• chapter sixteen: dents and scratches
• chapter seventeen: ashes
• chapter eighteen: chain of stitches
• chapter nineteen: quilts
• chapter twenty: blackwoods
• chapter twenty-one: luck
• chapter twenty-two: fish bones
• chapter twenty-three: from away
• chapter twenty-four: tides and currents
• chapter twenty-five: mittens
• chapter twenty-six: snowflakes
• chapter twenty-seven: old ways
• chapter twenty-eight: thin ice
• chapter twenty-nine: hearts like flint
• chapter thirty: over the mountain
• chapter thirty-one: snowbirds