Here is Lucinda almost grown up, Ruth Sawyer's first book since Roller Skates. The title comes from one of Lucinda's favorite songs with the refrain: "It must be now de Kingdom comin' in de year of Jubilo."

The Wyman family's "Year of Jubilo" didn't start that way. Their father had died, they had lost their money, and Mother, three older brothers, and Lucinda had to go to Maine to spend a year in the summer cottage which was all that was left to them.

It was difficult, but the "Wymans stick together" as Duncan said, and the year was a heartwarming experience, especially for Lucinda, who came to her fifteenth birthday a wiser and lovelier young woman.

She is still the same Lucinda to whom her uncle can write: "You and I share that violent capacity for knocking our heads against stone walls, for grinning at pain, for gathering along the highways and byways of life those herbs of grace and healing we so definitely need."

The Year of Jubilo will cast its spell not alone over young people approaching high-school age, but over many grown-ups as well.

From the dust jacket