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West Virginia twelve-year-old Rabble Starkey learns lessons about the inevitability of change after she and her mother, Sweet-Ho, who gave birth to her at the age of fourteen and never had a chance to get ahead, move into Rabble's best friend's home.

While at the beach for the summer, Harriet tries to uncover the author of mysterious religious notes that appear all over town and which make her ponder her own beliefs, and Beth Ellen meets the mother she last saw when she was four years old.