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A review by ljesica
Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk
4.0
This one is sweet. It's kind of a parable for appreciating what you have, but is also a pretty scary adventure for a kid's book.
Set in the late 1920's on a small group of islands off the coast of Massachusetts. this book focuses on Crow, Osh and Miss Maggie. When she was just hours old, Crow washed up to Osh's island in a battered old dinghy. He took her in and kept her as his own. With the help of Miss Maggie, she has grown in to a lovely young 12 year old girl. But aside from her adoptive family, Crow is kept at arms' length by the rest of the islanders, because while noone knows where she came from, it could be from the leper colony across the way.
Crow decides that while she loves Osh, she wants to know about her "real" family. And throughout the book, she learns that her real family is maybe the one that's always been there.
Set in the late 1920's on a small group of islands off the coast of Massachusetts. this book focuses on Crow, Osh and Miss Maggie. When she was just hours old, Crow washed up to Osh's island in a battered old dinghy. He took her in and kept her as his own. With the help of Miss Maggie, she has grown in to a lovely young 12 year old girl. But aside from her adoptive family, Crow is kept at arms' length by the rest of the islanders, because while noone knows where she came from, it could be from the leper colony across the way.
Crow decides that while she loves Osh, she wants to know about her "real" family. And throughout the book, she learns that her real family is maybe the one that's always been there.