Found Things
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Experience the wonder of the river in this “quietly powerful story” (Kirkus Reviews) where family is lost, friends are found, and hope runs in the current.
One morning, River Rose Byrne wakes up talking like nobody else, and she doesn’t know why. Maybe it’s because her beloved older brother, Theron, has abruptly vanished. Maybe it’s because that bully Daniel Bunch won’t leave her alone. Or maybe it has everything to do with the eerily familiar house that her mind explores when she’s asleep, and the mysterious woman who lives there.
River has to puzzle through these mysteries on her own until she makes a strange new friend named Meadow Lark. But when she brings Meadow Lark home and her mother reacts in a way that takes River by surprise, River is more lost than before. Now all that’s left for her to do is make wish after wish—and keep her eyes open for a miracle.
Marilyn Hilton’s haunting debut dives down deep into murky waters brimming with secrets, sorrow, and hope, giving us faith in the things that we seek, but haven’t yet found.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In her atmospheric first novel, Hilton (The Christian Girl's Guide to Your Mom) transports readers to the deep woods of Quincely, N.H., and into the mind of 11-year-old River Rose Byrne, who has started speaking with an odd accent ever since her older brother, Theron, disappeared in the wake of a car accident that may have involved drunk driving. At school, River is tormented by a classmate, Daniel, but she finds an unexpected ally in new student Meadow Lark Frankenfield, who is teased because of her "popped-out eye and her lurchy way of walking," but whose quiet confidence River admires. Meadow Lark gradually befriends River, joining her in dreaming and making wishes on the local river. When a dark wish they make appears to come true, and Theron's possessions begin to go missing, their friendship is thrown into question. An eerie sense of foreboding surrounding Meadow Lark, the wishes, and Theron's whereabouts creates tension that will carry readers through the book like the current of the river that River is so drawn to. Ages 9 12.
