The Clearing
Heather Davis, . . HMH/Graphia, $8.99 (215pp) ISBN 978-0-547-26367-0
For her senior year, Amy decides to move from Seattle to a tiny town in the North Cascades to live in her great-aunt Mae's trailer. Her goal is to escape her self-involved mother and stepfather, shallow circle of friends, and abusive boyfriend. “I needed to be somewhere different. Maybe I needed to be someone different, too,” she muses. Fitting in at her new school is a struggle because of her defensiveness; in low spirits, she is drawn to a foggy clearing near Mae's home, which leads to Henry Brigg's family farm—in the summer of 1944. Henry, who lives with his grandfather and frail mother, is a gentleman and the opposite of the boys Amy's been damaged by in the past. Alternating between Amy and Henry's intersecting stories, Davis's (
Reviewed on: 03/22/2010
Genre: Children's
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