title: Rachel's Next Chapter
author: Barbara Cairns
description: Barbara Cairns, a New Englander, is a former teacher and school principal who traveled extensively while working for Department of Defense schools. Her books thus far have been geared toward children with her art series GATSBY'S GRAND ADVENTURES, her history book CRACKER COW, and her captioned photo book featuring NIMH, THE DUMBO RAT. Her first fiction novel, NETTIE'S DREAM is a heartwarming and exciting story set in the rocky coast of Maine. An animal lover, Barbara volunteers weekly at the Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park. She lives on the Nature Coast of Florida with her Englishman husband, Ian.
zlib_text: Rachel Hawkins
  
  HEX HALL
  
  RACHEL HAWKINS
  
  2
  
  Rachel Hawkins
  
  Contents
  
   **Chapter 1**
  
   **Chapter 2**
  
   **Chapter 3**
  
   **Chapter 4**
  
   **Chapter 5**
  
   **Chapter 6**
  
   **Chapter 7**
  
   **Chapter 8**
  
   **Chapter 9**
  
   **Chapter 10**
  
   **Chapter 11**
  
   **Chapter 12**
  
   **Chapter 13**
  
   **Chapter 14**
  
   **Chapter 15**
  
   **Chapter 16**
  
   **Chapter 17**
  
   **Chapter 18**
  
   **Chapter 19**
  
   **Chapter 20**
  
   **Chapter 21**
  
   **Chapter 22**
  
   **Chapter 23**
  
   **Chapter 24**
  
   **Chapter 25**
  
   **Chapter 26**
  
   **Chapter 27**
  
   **Chapter 28**
  
   **Chapter 29**
  
   **Chapter 30**
  
   **Chapter 31**
  
   **Chapter 32**
  
   **3**
  
  Rachel Hawkins
  
   **PROLOGUE**
  
  Felicia Miller was crying in the bathroom. Again. I knew it was her because in
  the three months I’d been going to Green Mountain High, I’d already seen
  Felicia crying in the bathroom twice. She had a really distinctive sob, high
  and breathy like a little kid’s, even though Felicia was eighteen, two years
  older than me.
  
  I’d left her alone before, figuri