Before the Fireflies Come Out

The summer Callie was twelve, her mother made an unexpected announcement: they were going to visit Aunt Ruth—and the chicken farm.

After two years of grief since her father's death, Callie is ready for something different. What she finds on the farm is more than she bargained for. There are coops to clean, eggs to collect, and the mystery of candling an egg in a darkened cellar where you can see, with the right light, whether something inside is alive or not. There is Aunt Ruth — tireless, w...