It's about a girl named Abilene whose father sent her to Manifest after she got a bad cut on her leg. Abilene is curious to find out what her dad's town is like. When she gets there, she finds a box of mementos hidden under a loose floorboard in her bedroom. She loses her dad's compass, which is valuable to her. She tries to find it, but in doing so, she accidentally cracks a pot.Miss Sadie a "diviner" finds the compass, and Abilene finds her. She wants the compass back, but Miss Sadie says that Abilene cracked her pot, which she brought from Hungary. She says that Abilene should work for her to get the compass back and make up for the loss of the Hungarian pot. While Abilene works for Miss Sadie, Miss Sadie tells stories about old Manifest. Abilene learns more about the town Manifest once was, and the boy her father once was - Anita.
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