the parker inheritance by varian johnson

Reputation and to solve the puzzle, as difficult as it is. Now, Candice is determined to restore her beloved Grandmother’s Reputation as the city’s first African-American city manager in tatters. Trying to solve the puzzle, she disgraced herself and had to leave town, her To Candice the truth about her grandmother’s departure from Lambert: when The city if only those reading the letter can solve a puzzle. Great injustice committed in Lambert’s past and which promises untold riches to Letter in the attic, a letter addressed to her grandmother that speaks of a South Carolina at Candice’s late grandmother’s house. I listened to the audiobook – and whatĬandice Miller’s parents just got divorced and her motherĭecides they should leave Atlanta and spend the summer in the small town of Lambert,

Odyssey Audiobook Honor and a 2019 Coretta Scott King Honor Book at the ALAĬonference, I knew it was finally time. When a couple of weeks ago, it was rewarded both as a 2019 Unforeseen personal circumstances and like many other books in 2018, it sat languishing Outlets as well as some of my go-to reviewers and twitterers. Year – it was a buzzed book that received a lot of praise from major review I’ve had Varian Johnson’s Middle Grade novel The Parker Inheritance on my TBR since last Can they find the fortune and fulfill the letter’s promise before the summer ends? The challenge will lead them deep into Lambert’s history, full of ugly deeds, forgotten heroes, and one great love and deeper into their own families, with their own unspoken secrets. So with the help of Brandon Jones, the quiet boy across the street, she begins to decipher the clues in the letter. And the fortune that awaits the person who solves the puzzle. But the letter describes a young woman named Siobhan Washington.

It’s addressed to her grandmother, after all, who left Lambert in a cloud of shame. When Candice finds the letter, she isn’t sure she should read it. The letter waits in a book, in a box, in an attic, in an old house in Lambert, South Carolina.

The parker inheritance by varian johnson