Hero, a girl who does not speak, begins to do odd-jobs for her enigmatic neighbor, Miss Credence, whose house holds a shocking secret, at the same time that Hero’s sister returns home with an abandoned boy and another secret.

• ISBN: 9780670864553
• Author: Mahy, Margaret
• Published: 1995 , Viking Juvenile
• Themes: Family problems, isolation, mutism, Self-realization
• Descriptors: Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), New Zealand, Oceania
• No. of pages: 176