Moon Over Manifest is an overall brilliant book. It's a historical fiction book that takes place in both 1936 and 1918.
Albinene is a twelve year old girl who travels with her father, Giddeon, on the road. He goes to take a railroad job in Iowa, and leaves Albinene to his hometown of Manifest. There, Alibene makes new friends, Lettie and Ruthanne, both cousins. Albinene sets herself on an adventure to find "the rattler" who is a spy she reads about in notes she finds under the floorboards of her new room. While on her adventures she meets a Hungarian woman named Miss Sadie, who is a diviner. Miss Sadie tells her enchanting stories of the past, about a boy named Jinx and another boy named Ned, best friends till the end. But where is her daddy in this town? Where is the mark he left? She wonders that all the while. Will she ever find out all the mysteries hidden in the immigrants town of Manifest, 1918?
