Keeper of the Doves Author:Betsy Byars "We heard noise behind the chapel. In silence Grandmama led the way. At the back of the chapel she stopped, and so did we. — Mr. Tominski sat on a stump with his back to us. In the trees were doves, dozens of them. He called out something in a foreign language, and one of the doves flew toward him. Mr. Tominski held up a shiny object and the... more » dove took it in its beak and flew back to the tree. Another foreign word. Another bird, until the trees were filled with doves holding these shiny pieces of metal."
In the late 1800s in Kentucky, Amie McBee and her four sisters both fear and torment the reclusive and seemingly sinister Mr. Tominski, but their father continues to provide for his needs.« less