A corn-husk doll wakes at midnight to share the secret she's kept since the sugarcane plantations — one only a little girl named Isabella will hear. Una muñeca de hojas de maíz despierta a medianoche para compartir el secreto que ha guardado desde los cañaverales, uno que solo Isabella escuchará.
After her mother returns from a trip to New Orleans, a young girl named Isabella receives an antique corn-husk doll — Chloe. That night she falls asleep reading A Wrinkle in Time, Chloe wakes beside her bed to tell her story: a childhood on a sugarcane plantation, and the daring escape her family made toward freedom. What begins as a strange new toy becomes a friendship that reaches across generations — and a gentle first lesson in a history too important to skip.
Una niña recibe una muñeca antigua de hojas de maíz llamada Chloe, quien cobra vida en sus sueños para compartir la historia de su familia: la niñez en un cañaveral y su valiente huida hacia la libertad.
"My mother frequently undertakes travels. She recently returned from New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz music. She bought me a doll from an antique shop. This doll is beyond exceptional. You'll soon discover what makes Chloe so unique."
"My new doll made from corn husks appears in my dreams when I close my eyes after reading A Wrinkle in Time. When I wake up, she is on the edge of my bed. I don't know if the doll's body is real, or just a ghost."