The Girl in the White Cape (Sapienza Barbara)(Paperback)

Fifteen-year-old Elena lives in a church attic in San Francisco's Richmond neighborhood, where she is cared for by her guardian, a kind Russian priest named Father Al. Six days a week, Father Al sends her out of Our Lady, across the meadows and ponds of Golden Gate Park, and all the way to Baba Vera's house on Taraval Street for Baba's version of school. Unlike regular school, however, Elena's learning is unnerving. Baba Vera's preposterous demands, dizzying antics, and house--which is full of skeletons, brooms, strange implements, and guinea pigs, among other oddities--seem straight out of a Russian fairy tale Father Al used to read to Elena . . . not life in 2020. If not for her beloved doll, Kukla--bequeathed to her by the mother she never got to know, but of whom she often dreams--Elena would be overwhelmed. Yet she works hard at every task given her, understanding intuitively
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