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You can click the player below or experience the recording on TeachingBooks, where you can read along as you listen, and also translate the text to another language. Listen to Lauren Wolk talking with TeachingBooks about creating Echo Mountain. Read a longer excerpt from Echo Mountain, written by Lauren Wolk With brave Ellie at its center, this is a story of resilience, persistence, and friendship across three generations of families, set against the rough beauty of the mountain they all call home. Determined to help, Ellie sets off into the wilderness in search of a woman, known only as “the hag,” who may have healing knowledge.

Ellie loves the freedom of life on the mountain, but her family blames her for an accident that has left her father in a coma.

Published by Dutton Children’s Books, an imprint of Penguin Random Houseĭuring the Great Depression, Ellie’s family is forced to leave their home in town and start over in the forests of nearby Echo Mountain.

'This is a book that will soothe readers like a healing balm.' ( The Wall Street Journal)

'Soothing and exquisitely written.' ( People) Lauren Wolk, the Newbery Honor- and Scott O'Dell Award-winning author of Wolf Hollow and Beyond the Bright Sea weaves a stunning tale of resilience, persistence, and friendship across three generations of families. Historical fiction at its finest, Echo Mountain is celebration of finding your own path and becoming your truest self. But the hag, and the mountain, still have many untold stories left to reveal. An accident unfairly blamed on Ellie.Įllie 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 of the healing secrets of a woman known only as “the hag”. But there is little joy after a terrible accident leaves her father in a coma.

Ellie has found a welcome freedom, and a love of the natural world, in her new life on the mountain.

A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the YearĪfter 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.

A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year.A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.'.there has never been a better time to read about healing, of both the body and the heart.' ( The New York Times Book Review)Įcho Mountain is an acclaimed best book of 2020! An NPR Best Book of the Year “Historical fiction at its finest.” ( The Horn Book)

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