Echo Mountain

… "Historical fiction at its finest." -The Horn Book"There has never been a better time to read about healing, of both the body and the heart." -The New York Times Book ReviewEcho Mountain is an acclaimed best book of 2020 An NPR Best Book of the Year - A Horn Book Fanfare Selection - A Kirkus Best Book of the Year - A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year - A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year - A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the YearAfter losing almost everything in the Great Depression, Ellie's family is forced to leave their home in town and start over in the untamed wilderness of nearby Echo Mountain. Ellie has found a welcome freedom, and a love of the natural world, in her new life on the mountain. But there is little joy after a terrible accident leaves her father in a coma. An accident unfairly blamed on Ellie.   Ellie is a girl who takes matters into her own hands, and determined to help her father she will make her way to the top of the mountain in search