Eva of the Farm
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Publisher Description
A girl’s struggle to save her family’s farm, told in verse, stands as a testament to the power of hope.
Twelve-year-old Eva DeHart knows her family’s farm is the best, most magical place in the whole world. The Farm has apple trees and sun daisies and a creek. The Farm has frightening things too—like cougars, bears, and a dead tree that Eva calls the Demon Snag. And everything at the Farm shoots out of Eva’s fingertips into her poems. She dreams of being a heroine of shining deeds, but who ever heard of a heroine-poet?
When a blight strikes the orchard and a letter from the bank arrives marked FORECLOSURE, Eva is given that very chance as she puts all the power of her imagination at work to save the Farm. From a booth at the farmer’s market to the snowbound hills where the coyotes hunt, Eva discovers that we face our fears and find our courage in the most unexpected places.
This novel by acclaimed author Dia Calhoun is about the transforming powers of imagination and hope, which can turn us all into heroes.
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Twelve-year-old Eva adores her family's farm it's the inspiration for her poems, which are interspersed throughout this novel-in-verse from Calhoun (Avielle of Rhia). But the bad economy brings financial stress to Eva's family, and they are in danger of losing the farm. There are two levels to the story, the first being the world of mounting bills, the threat of foreclosure, and Eva's decision to sell her poetry in the town market, where it is received lovingly by their smalltown community. The other layer is the spiritual battle Eva fights against the "Demon Snag," a blackened tree stump at the edge of the farm that she imagines is responsible for her family's problems. The local Bead Woman guides Eva in a mystical journey in which Eva must decide if hope can triumph despite the threats to her beloved farm. Although Eva's poetry is a bit too lovely to be believable, her situation will evoke sympathy, and the details of the family's financial distress are realistically drawn. Ages 10 12.
