![]() Via strongly sketched cabin-life cadences and memorable, empathic characterizations-including, perhaps most vividly, of the wilderness itself-Newbery Honoree Wolk ( Wolf Hollow) builds a powerful, well-paced portrait of interconnectedness, work and learning, and strength in a time of crisis. ![]() ![]() Tensions, this time within the interconnected mountain Lauren Wolk, the Newbery Honor and Scott O'Dell Awardwinning author of Wolf Hollow and Beyond the Bright Sea, weaves a stunning tale of resilience, persistence, and friendship across three generations of families. When a dog leads Ellie to “the hag,” a woman who knows about cures and is herself suffering, the girl lends a hand, resulting in further Historical fiction at its finest, Echo Mountain is celebration of finding your own path and becoming your truest self. Complex family dynamics loom large amid day-to-day matters: Ellie’s mother and sister long for their former life and blame Ellie for her father’s state Ellie, who discovers a gift for healing, further upsets them by trying to startle her father awake. The family’s struggle to survive intensifies, made worse by fears about whether their beloved father-a tailor turned woodsman who, like Ellie, loves the wild-will ever awaken. After the financial crash forces a tight-knit family of five to move from town to build a cabin on Echo Mountain, a tree-felling accident puts 12-year-old narrator Ellie’s father into a coma. ![]() A girl realizes her standout gifts as a healer in this exquisitely layered historical novel set in Depression-era Maine. ![]()
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