Three Knocks on the Wall

<p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Marty had just finished burying a dead robin near the tall wooden fence that surrounded the Hutchinson back yard and the house next door. Suddenly she heard it⁠-knock knock knock⁠-three knocks coming from the other side of the wall. For a moment Marty was too petrified to move. Knocking on a wall was something a crazy person might do and some people said old Mrs. Hutchinson </span><em style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>was</em><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)> crazy living alone with an unmarried daughter and seeing no one. Then the knocks came again.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Marty soon learned the identity of the person on the other side of the ten-foot wall and why she stayed there. What was harder to discover was a way to help her new yet unseen friend. For a long time all Marty could do was communicate through the wall and be patient. It was not until a deadly flu epidemic gripped the town and Marty could not come to the wall that her friend finally dared to step outside it.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Evoking small town life in Oregon during World War I with vividness and a clear sense of time and character Evelyn Sibley Lampman has created a very human and dramatic story that will carry its readers along to a most satisfying conclusion.</span></p>