2013, Wendy Lamb Books, Random House
232 pgs.
Mid Grades Fantastic RF
Finished 9/21/2013
Goodreads
Rating: 3.93
My Rating: Liked it (3)
TPPL
Contemporary coast of Maine, with forays back to 1944
My comments: This book was set in Maine, in a big house right on the beach, and I wish the setting had been explored a little more. This wasn't realistic fiction, it was fantasy, because Siena, the protagonist, could see into people-of-the-past's lives. Trying to figure out how to help her three-year-old brother, Lucca, to talk was a driving force in her life. Her abilities to see and touch the lives of the family that lived 60 years before in her house is the "key" that helps this happen.Goodreads Review: "I'm obsessed with abandoned things." Siena's obsession began a year and a half ago, around the time her two-year-old brother Lucca stopped talking. Now Mom and Dad are moving the family from Brooklyn to Maine hoping that it will mean a whole new start for Lucca and Siena. She soon realizes that their wonderful old house on the beach holds secrets. When Siena writes in her diary with an old pen she found in her closet, the pen writes its own story, of Sarah and Joshua, a brother and sister who lived in the same house during World War II. As the two stories unfold, amazing parallels begin to appear, and Siena senses that Sarah and Joshua's story might contain the key to unlocking Lucca's voice.
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