The morning after a storm, something comes floating to their shore: two mattresses strapped together with a baby inside. Twelve-year-old Quila lives alone with her father, the lighthouse keeper on Devil’s Rock, after her mother’s recent death. Buy a discounted Paperback of Gifts From The Sea online from Australias leading online. Gifts from the Sea is targeted toward a little older audience: 12-adult. Kinsey-Warnock (The Canada Geese Quilt) gives a touching picture of the broken family's isolation and loneliness on the rocky island and their gradual healing, but there are flaws. |f CHILDREN |a FICTION Kinsey-Warnock, N. Booktopia has Gifts From The Sea by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock. Two years later, Cecelia's aunt Margaret comes to the island in search of her niece, and Quila tries to escape with the baby and nearly drowns. |a Maine |x History |y 19th century |v Fiction. |a Quila and her father, living alone in a remote Maine lighthouse in the 1850's, find their lives profoundly changed when a baby washes ashore and they decide to keep her as part of their family. |a New York : |b Knopf : |b Distributed by Random House, |c 2003. Two years later, though, another stranger arrives, one who changes everything all over again: A woman named Margaret, come looking for the final resting place of her sister, whose. She makes them a family again-and helps heal the hurt left by Quila's mother's passing.
|a Gifts from the sea / |c by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock illustrated by Judy Pedersen. They name her Cecelia, which means 'a gift from the sea,' and call her Celia.
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