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"Doris has always reveled in the warmth of a spotlight. Her whole life, she's danced the nights away, with friends from the only home she's ever known. But one day, Doris twirls ... out of step ... until she stumbles across a whole new kind of spotlight"-- Provided by publisher.

His mother left three years ago, so when twelve-year-old Flip's thieving father dies he goes to live with his stern and hostile uncle on the remote Dutch island of Mossum; there he works on the farm, dreams of his mother coming to get him, deals with the local bullies, and his only "friend' is a strange, mute girl whom he thinks of as the ghost girl--until he rescues a horse from the stormy sea and discovers a new purpose in caring for his charge....