Echo Mountain

★ "Historical fiction at its finest." -The Horn Book

"There has never been a better time to read about healing, of both the body and the heart." -The New York Times Book Review

Echo Mountain is an acclaimed best book of 2020
An NPR Best Book of the Year - A Horn Book Fanfare Selection - A Kirkus Best Book of the Year - A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year - A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year - A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year

After losing almost everything in the Great Depression, Ellie's family is forced to leave their home in town and start over in the untamed wilderness of nearby Echo Mountain. Ellie has found a welcome freedom, and a love of the natural world, in her new life on the mountain. But there is little joy after a terrible accident leaves her father in a coma. An accident unfairly blamed on Ellie.

Ellie is a girl who takes matters into her own hands, and determined to help her father she will make her way to the top of the mountain in search of the healing secrets of a woman known only as "the hag." But the hag, and the mountain, still have many untold stories left to reveal.

Historical fiction at its finest, Echo Mountain is celebration of finding your own path and becoming your truest self. Lauren Wolk, the Newbery Honor- and Scott O'Dell Award-winning author of Wolf Hollow and Beyond the Bright Sea, weaves a stunning tale of resilience, persistence, and friendship across three generations of families.

"Soothing and exquisitely written." -People

"This is a book that will soothe readers like a healing balm." -The Wall Street Journal

"Brilliant." -Lynda Mullaly Hunt, bestselling author of Fish in a Tree

Author: Lauren Wolk
Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
Published: 04/21/2020
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780525555568
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.3
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 508416 / Echo Mountain


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2020 pg. 152
Booklist 03/01/2020 pg. 55
Publishers Weekly 03/02/2020
School Library Journal 04/01/2020 pg. 134
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 04/01/2020
Shelf Awareness 04/24/2020
Horn Book Magazine 07/01/2020 pg. 145
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2020 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style

About the Author
Lauren Wolk is an award-winning poet, artist, and author of the adult novel Those Who Favor Fire, the Newbery Honor-winning novel Wolf Hollow, and the Scott O'Dell Award-winning Beyond the Bright Sea. She was born in Baltimore and has since lived in California, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Canada, and Ohio. She now lives with her family on Cape Cod.