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Gr 1-4 Two 16-year-old best friends, both named Marie, enjoy carefree lives in their southern French town, until the day they venture out too far into the clam flats where the fast-moving tide quickly overtakes them. The waves toss them and their boat deep into the ocean and then up to heaven. There, God gives them a second chance by allowing them to return to the town they love and help its inhabitants. They row their boa...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

As she acknowledges in a prefatory note, Wells transforms an old saint's tale from southern France into a local legend, where the two Maries who give the town of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer its name become, rather than biblical figures, nineteenth-century girls who die young and spend the afterlife doing good for the people of the town. Th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More