How did I miss these?
I've been doing some reading on things that I've been seeing on some lists but haven't had a chance to read and wow, now that I've read them, I'm a little sorry I waited so long, but oh well, better late than never. The first one I actually read this summer and somehow forgot to blog about it. It's called Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan. It's kind of a genre defying book because it starts off as a fairy tale and then has three parts of what appear to be unrelated historical fiction and then finishes as both a fairy tale and modern fiction. It sounds a bit confusing but I assure, the story is anything but. It starts with a boy named Otto who is wandering around in a forest and gets lost. He is approached by three sisters who have quite a fantastic story. They leave him back at home, a bit confused, but with a harmonica to remind him of his quest. Then we go to Freidrich in Germany in the late 1930s. Then to Ivy in California in 1941 and finally to...