Chapter 7 Summary

Janie arrives to an empty house. Her mother is volunteering at the hospital that day. Janie begins to look around the house for clues to her past. Wanting to find the key to the bank safety deposit box so that she can get her birth certificate, Janie rummages through the filing cabinet and realizes that the bottom drawer is locked. Worried about what secrets her parents may be hiding, Janie finds an excuse to go up to the attic, where she starts to looks through the dusty old boxes filled with Christmas sweaters, Halloween costumes, and her father's ski boots. Among the boxes of jigsaw puzzles and fishing equipment, Janie finds a locked truck that is labeled simply as "H." The lock on the trunk breaks, and Janie discovers old school papers from someone named Hannah. She finds a picture of Hannah, who...