by Claire Vanderpool - Newbery Award Winner 2011
I really prefer mysteries and suspense, and so I read this historical fiction novel simply because it won the award. I struggled a bit to get into it - not because it isn't a "good" book - but because I like more action right from the beginning. I am so happy that I stuck with it all the way to the end. As I read, I began to really get to know the characters and while it seemed a little disjointed at the beginning, it all tied together in a way I never could have imagined (yet seemed so perfect) in the end. By the time I was finished, I knew exactly why it won the highest young adult novel award in the country. It's a story about a young girl in 1936 who's dad sends her to live with an old friend from his past for the summer. She spends the summer looking for clues to her dad's past with a couple of friends and finds herself reading old newspapers, old hidden letters, and hearing stories from an old Diviner. I definitely recommend this book - especially if you like stories about kids that lived long ago. Enjoy and let me know what you think when you read it.
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