A review by muddypuddle
Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined by Danielle Younge-Ullman

4.0

I do enjoy these books that put the protagonist into a summer camp/survival situation, a sort of upward/outward bound of staggering proportions. This is the second one I've read this year, but very different from Wild Bird (Van Draanen). It's told by slipping back and forth between the three-week tough hiking/survival experience and Ingrid's life, which is entirely dependent upon and wrapped up by and with her mother. A few interesting twists and turns, though not especially unexpected, add to the story, which is set in the forests of northern Ontario, Canada. And I really did read this in one long sitting!