Join us for a talk with Newbery Honor-winning author Lauren Wolk about her most recent middle-grade novel, Candle Island, and children’s literature. This special event will be appropriate for middle-grade readers, as well as those interested in middle-grade literature.
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A moving portrait of loss and the restorative power of art from Lauren Wolk, the Newbery Honor-winning author of Beyond the Bright Sea.
Lucretia Sanderson has a secret.
Lucretia and her mother have come to tiny Candle Island, Maine (Population: Summer, 986; Winter, 315) to escape--escape memories of the car accident that killed her father and escape the journalists that hound her mother, a famous and reclusive artist. The rocky coast and ocean breeze are a welcome respite for Lucretia, who dedicates her summer days to painting, exploring the island, and caring for an orphaned osprey chick.
But Candle Island has secrets of its own--a hidden room in her new house, a mysterious boy with a beautiful voice--and just like the strong tides that surround the shores, they will catch Lucretia in their wake.
With an unforgettable New England setting and a complex web of relationships old and new,Candle Islandis a powerful story about art, loss, and the power of being true to your own voice.
About Lauren Wolk: Lauren Wolk is best known for her novels, including the New York Times bestselling novel Wolf Hollow, which won a 2017 Newbery Honor, the 2016 New England Book Award, a 2017 Jane Addams Honor, the 2018 Massachusetts Book Award, and other honors. In 2017, Dutton published Beyond the Bright Sea, which won the 2018 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction and was short-listed for several awards, including the New England Book Award and the Carnegie Award (U.K.). Echo Mountain (2020) was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, and others. Dutton published My Own Lightning, a sequel to Wolf Hollow, in 2022.
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