Time Will Tell Author:Suzanne Bush, Deb Takes Katie Farrell and her friends at Manhattan Prep are not unlike many kids, as they struggle with conflicts: how they look and dress, school bullies, fitting in with the cool crowd, animal rights and justice and mercy. And time? Well, let's just say time is a fickle friend and a strange teacher. — Born in a remote city in Romania, at the height of ... more »a revolution, Katie was one of thousands of nameless orphans, some abandoned by parents too poor to care for them, some orphaned by the deaths of their parents.
Fate stepped into her life when Charlotte Farrell, the beautiful American actress, visited Romania to help the United Nations focus worldwide attention on the orphans. Charlotte and her husband, John, knew immediately that the baby with the mysterious, dark eyes and the wildly curly black hair belonged in their lives. But Katie didn't come to America alone. The woman who had cared for her in the orphanage, Sophia, became part of the family, too.
Even though she realizes how lucky she is, Katie often feels like an outsider. At school, she and her friends Lily, Corky and Henry travel in an orbit that parallels, but rarely crosses, that of the cool kids. What's the essence of cool? She tries to explain it to her parents. For Katie, cool seems to be everything she is not. Her hair is too curly, her skin too dark, her body too round.
As Katie wrestles with the things that make her feel so different and uncool, she finds herself srawn into the center of several mysterious events--they seem like cruel pranks at first, but suddenly they turn dangerous.
Unraveling these mysteries leads Katie on a quest to find out how her classmates can be so mean. As she searches for answers, she stumbles on surprising insights from some rather strange sources. Does a 400 year-old play hold clues that can help her better understand how mercy and justice apply to the bullies at Manhattan Prep? Can a shy young man with a tragic past change the way Katie sees herself?