Before the Lark

In 1888 Kansas City, Missouri, twelve-year-old Jocey Royal, who has a cleft lip, no longer goes to school. Jocey believes that she will never have a friend, that others will always chase and make fun of her, as they did at school before she quit. Jocey dreams of Kansas and the farm her father abandoned there. On the farm, she could live in isol...