The Court of the Stone Children is set in present-day San Francisco, where Nina Harmsworth has recently moved from her beloved home in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Nina feels alone and sad; her parents are preoccupied, her schoolmates unfriendly, and she hates the ugly, closed-in apartment in which her family lives. One day she meets Gil Patrick, a boy her own age who—like Nina—is considered "odd" by other people. He mentions to her a place he likes, the nearby French Museum, lifetime that Nina would some day come to prove Domi's father innocent of the murder for which he was hanged.
As Nina delves.....
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