What is a major conflict in Moon Over Manifest, by Clare Vanderpool?

Abilene's main conflict is her feeling of abandonment by
her father.  She doesn't understand why her injury made her father send her to
Manifest.  As she listens to Miss Sadie's stories about the past, she comes to believe
that Jinx in the earlier stories is her father, Gideon.  She learns from the stories
that Jinx blamed himself for Ned's death. It is never spoken in the story, but readers
can infer that Gideon felt responsible for Abilene's injury and was afraid that if she
stayed with him, something bad would happen to her and he might lose her as he lost
Ned.