Needle and Thread (Main Street #2)
In Needle and Thread, the second book in the Main Street series, Flora and Ruby begin to feel more at home in Camden Falls. Ruby, with the lead in a school play, seems to be getting over her parents' death, though the holidays bring challenges for both girls and their grandmother as they try to forge a new life. Freed of some of the setup in the first book, this story delves more easily into the sisters' new lives, and although the girls never seem as grief stricken as one might expect, the novel does touch on the different ways children deal with loss. Readers drawn by the books' quiet details will be pleased that more titles in the series are on the way. Cooper, Ilene