Miracle Girls (9781938126161)

It’s 1973 in Upstate New York and girls are disappearing in record numbers. Ten-year-old Cee-Cee Bianco thinks she has a lead on one of the latest missing children. When her favorite brother, Baby Pauly, witnesses a brutal crime in the woods, nobody expects what happens next: Cee-Cee performs a miracle that sets off a chain reaction of doubt and devotion in the community, the church, and Cee-Cee’s new teachers, a group of radical war-protesting nuns who are themselves keeping a secret that could change everything. Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam war, Watergate, and a shifting landscape of American family life, MIRACLE GIRLS tells the story of one family, one town, and one remarkable girl— which may just be the story of all our lives.