Welcome to Litsy!

A teen questions all she knows about aging when she encounters a set of journals that date from the present back to the reign of King Louis XIV in this �absorbing portrait of the court of Versailles� (Kirkus Reviews) from the author of the acclaimed Gideon trilogy. Stella Park (Spark for short) has found summer work cataloging historical archives in John Stone�s remote and beautiful house in Suffolk, England. She wasn�t quite sure what to expect, and her uncertainty about living at Stowney House only increases upon arriving: what kind of people live in the twenty-first century without using electricity, telephones, or even a washing machine? Additionally, the notebooks she�s organizing span centuries�they begin in the court of Louis XIV in Versailles�but are written in the same hand. Something strange is going on for sure, and Spark�s questions are piling up. Who exactly is John Stone? What connection does he have to these notebooks? And more importantly, why did he hire her in the first place?