Echo Mountain is Lauren Wolk's third masterpiece. Her first two books, Wolf Hollow and Beyond the Bright Sea, are some of my favorites in the library. Wolf Hollow, her debut novel, won the Newbery Honor in 2017. She wrote those first two books pretty close together so I have had to wait 3 years for Echo Mountain. It's been a long wait. Ellie lives with her family on the mountain during the Great Depression. Her parents lose good jobs in town so they have to move to the mountain to live, building their own log cabin. Life is hard, but they scrap by until her dad is injured and goes into a coma. Ellie, her sister and brother, help the family makes ends meet. Ellie will do anything for her dad to help him heal... maybe even seeing the mountain witch who everyone stays away from to see if she can help...I loved this story almost as much as Wolk's first two books .This would be a great read aloud/book club study around the Great Depression.
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