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William Bell’s young adult novel, Stones, deals with the history of religious conflicts. Main protagonists, Garnet Havelock and Raphaella Skye were involved in a first-class haunting. To solve this haunting, they investigated the history of Oro area. In their search, they found that 150 years ago, 8 religious men had killed a black woman, Hannah, because of her diasporic religion. They regarded Hannah as a witch because she practiced voodoo rituals. Hannah’s case is closely connected with the violence which Garnet’s mother had by the religious extremists in East Timor, and Raphaella is bullied due to her religious backgrounds. To emphasize religious tolerance and coexistence, Bell focuses the protagonists’ growth at the end of this novel by showing Raphaella’s unflinching attitudes towards the ghostly men and the balanced viewpoint of Garnet’s school report on Inherit the Wind.
