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Girl in the Barn
Hardcover
Series: Juniper Creek, Book 1
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9781969515156
Publisher: Rose & Pearl Publishing, LLC
Published: Jul 20 2026
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A story about courage, kindness, and the families that find us - written for the kids who need to believe someone will come looking.
Nine-year-old Maggie Hartley has lost almost everything. Her parents. Her grandparents. And now, her four-year-old sister Grace - moved to a different foster placement without so much as a goodbye. So Maggie does what she's learned to do when she believes the adults in charge can't be trusted to fix things: she takes matters into her own hands. She slips out a window in the middle of the night and sets out to find her sister herself.
What she finds instead is a hayloft, a curious little girl named Ellie, and a farm family who won't let a runaway nine-year-old stay invisible for long.
Girl in the Barn is the first book in the Juniper Creek Series, a trilogy about two sisters navigating foster care, loss, and the slow, surprising process of learning to trust again.
Why parents trust this series:
Erica Kingsbury writes hard topics - grief, instability, the fear of not being chosen - with real honesty, but never without hope close at hand. Faith is woven through gently, never heavy-handed. The adults aren't perfect, but the good ones show up and keep showing up. There's nothing here that will frighten a sensitive reader; there's a great deal here that will comfort a child who's ever felt unsteady.
Perfect for fans of Anne of Avonlea and The Penderwicks - stories about resilience, found family, and the courage it takes to hope again.
Book One of Three. The Hartley sisters' adoption story continues in Road Home and concludes in Uprooted. The kids of Juniper Creek will continue to share new adventures in upcoming books in the series.
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