Lauren Wolk, Author Random House (NY) $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-679-44849-5
In picturesque, present-day Pennsylvania, the former coal-mining town of Belle Haven harbors a hidden danger: lethal fires, ignited by a burning dump, simmer below ground. Despite this hazard, residents refuse to abandon their homes, relying instead
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Lauren Wolk. Dutton, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-101-99482-5
Echoing the tone and themes found in To Kill a Mockingbird and Summer of My German Soldier, this WWII story traces the unlikely friendship between a country girl and a shell-shocked veteran. Most people in Wolf Hollow, Pa., don't know what to make...
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Lauren Wolk. Dutton, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-101-99485-6
Creating mystery and suspense in an unusual setting, Newbery Honor–winner Wolk (Wolf Hollow) spins an intriguing tale of an orphan determined to find her roots, set in the 1920s. As a baby, Crow was found in a boat washed up on a (fictional)...
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Lauren Wolk. Dutton, $17.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-525-55556-8
A girl realizes her standout gifts as a healer in this exquisitely layered historical novel set in Depression-era Maine. 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
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Lauren Wolk. Dutton, $17.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-55559-9
Set in 1944, one year after her Newbery Honor–winning Wolf Hollow, in the same rural Pennsylvania community, Wolk crafts an exceptional sequel that both builds on the complexity of the previous installment and also stands on its own merit. After...
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Lauren Wolk, read by Jorjeana Marie. Listening Library, , unabridged, 6 CDs, 7.5 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-1-5247-7502-5
Several central characters populate Wolk’s New England coming-of-age novel. The protagonist, Crow, at 12, has begun asking questions about her past as an abandoned baby—questions that neither her taciturn foster father, Osh, nor their matter-of-fact
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Lauren Wolk. Dutton, $18.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-69854-9
To rebuild their lives following her father’s death, artistic 12-year-old synesthete Lucretia Sanderson and her painter mother move to tiny Candle Island, Maine. Initially hoping for peace and privacy, they instead find themselves at the center of a
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