Crossing the Starlight Bridge

by Alice Mead
Published in 1994 by Macmillan Books (now Simon and Schuster)
ISBN 068980105X

Summary: Rayanne Sunipass has grown up on Two Rivers Island, Maine. That is where the Penobscot have always lived. Then when Ray is nine, her father leaves the family. A series of changes ensue and Rayanne learns' the meaning of promises broken and promises kept.

Awards: Boston Public Schools Grade 5 Reading List