![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Can they find the fortune and fulfill the letter's promise before the answers slip into the past yet again? The challenge will lead them deep into Lambert's history, full of ugly deeds, forgotten heroes, and one great love and deeper into their own families, with their own unspoken secrets. So with the help of Brandon Jones, the quiet boy across the street, she begins to decipher the clues. And the fortune that awaits the person who solves the puzzle. It's addressed to her grandmother, who left Lambert in shame. When Candice finds the letter, she isn't sure she should read it. The letter waits in a book, in a box, in an attic, in an old house in Lambert, South Carolina. Varian talks about his inspiration for the book, the research it took to dig back into his own hometown’s past, and about social justice - how far we’ve come and how far we still have to go. This week, we're talking with Varian Johnson, author of the new middle grade book The Parker Inheritance. ![]()
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