How could Lizzy Enders's father leave her in a girls school run by the Sisters of Loretto in Santa Fe? She's surrounded by Catholics, who pray to Saint Joseph and whose saints keep watch over her--and she's Methodist! Taunted by the other boarders, Lizzy befriends a wandering carpenter named Jose, who with just three tools--and his unflagging faith--builds a staircase to the choir loft of the new chapel. Through their friendship, Lizzy discovers the inner strength to forgive and to trust.
Working from the legend of the "miraculous" staircase in the Chapel of Loretto in Santa Fe, Ann Rinaldi skillfully blends the mystery surrounding the builder of the staircase with the daily trials of a young girl growing up in the 1870s.
- ISBN10 0152024301
- ISBN13 9780152024307
- Publish Date 1 October 2000
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 22 June 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Thomson Learning
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 230
- Language English