bookworm08
20th June 2008, 03:18
Hi everyone! I’m looking for a book that I read when I was a kid, but I can’t remember the title or author of it, and I was wondering if anyone could help me. I’m sure I read it before the year 2000, so it had to have been published before then, but I suspect it was published at least a decade or two earlier. Here’s what I remember of it, although the details are a bit fuzzy. The book begins with a girl and her mom. I believe that the dad was not present in the story. I think that he had died, although it could have been a divorce. The girl and her mom are driving around on a snowy day and run into another girl. They end up bringing her home with them. Throughout the course of the story, they find out that this girl saw her family die when her house burned down many, many years ago. Since that time, she has never gotten any older, and she still has a burn on her leg from the fire, as fresh as the day she got it. She can go back and relive those memories of the fire, and I believe that she somehow takes the girl she’s staying with and possibly the girl’s boyfriend back into the memories with her. I don’t remember the ending well but I believe she has to work through these memories somehow. I’ve tried googling without much success, and I’ve been looking for this book for a long time, so if you could help me I would really appreciate it! Thank you!