There is friendship with the hag’s grandson, Larkin, who reveals a talent of his own. When her father is injured, Ellie is resilient, curious and eager to learn the secrets of healing from an “old hag” living high in the mountain. Her deliberate pacing keeps reader’s fully engaged and wondering what will happen next.Įllie finds beauty in a wilderness that speaks to her. Wolk’s plot is courageous, gripping, and humorous at times. Her characters are well-developed, with 12-year-old Ellie the kind of girl readers will want to befriend. Set in the Maine wilderness during the Great Depression, her imagery in Echo Mountain is rich and poetic. Lauren Wolk is a beautiful storyteller and her writing is exquisite. 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, set against the rough and ragged beauty of the mountain they all call home. An accident unfairly blamed on Ellie by her older sister, Esther.ĭetermined to help her father, Ellie 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 the hag, and the mountain, still have many untold stories left to reveal and, with them, a fresh chance at happiness.Įcho Mountain is celebration of finding your own path and becoming your truest self.
But there is little joy, even for Ellie, as her family struggles with the aftermath of an accident that has left her father in a coma. Life is hard, but Ellie has found a welcome freedom, and a love of the natural world, in her new life on the mountain. Her father was a tailor and her mother a teacher. When the Great Depression takes almost everything they own, Ellie’s family is forced to leave their home in town and start over in the untamed forests of nearby Echo Mountain. My mother thought he was dead, but he was too young to die, just born, still wet and glossy, beautiful really, but not breathing.” Opening: “The first person I saved was a dog.
Themes: Great Depression, Family Relationships, Nature, Accident, Healing, Hope, Friendship Dutton Books for Young Readers, Fiction, Apr.
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