For: Gr. 5 and upPublished: 2009
248 easy pages
Rating: 3.5ish
Finished: Fri. night, Mar. 13, 2009
Well, this was an interesting book that was really difficult to rate. Will I feel differently about it tomorrow, or when I get a chance to talk with someone about it? Most probably. With shades of The Giver, magic, healers, faerie folk, apocolyptic overtones, cruel father and shapeshifting-to-wolf friend, it's a difficult book to describe and to rate.
Liza lives in post-war midwestern US, where you can not venture from your town because the world is a totally different place since the war. Branches and roots come up to strangle you. Nowhere is safe. Magic has turned up everywhere, and magic destroys. Magic is to be feared. So when Liza begins discovering that she has her own magic, she decides to leave her tiny community before they find out about it and kill her.
This begins her quest story, her quest for the truth about her mother, the truth about her magic, and the true meaning of trust and friendship.
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