Book 3: The Shoemaker and His Elves, Chapters 5-8 Summary

In Chapter 5, The Family Tree, Mercedes discovers Lily has drawn all over the family tree. Sobbing, Mercedes tells Frances that she hates Lily. Frances takes Lily to the garden to bury the family tree and tells her more stories about Ambrose.

In Chapter 6, Porridge, James discovers that the girls were digging around the rock in the garden. He asks what they were doing and Lily tells him they planted a tree under the rock. James wonders if he should exhume the remains of Ambrose. Frances says that she told Lily they might find buried treasure in the garden but found nothing.

In Chapter 7, Water Babies, Lily has a nightmare about Frances standing in the creek, holding a bundle. After the family comforts her, Lily has another dream in which...