Description
Winner of the 2023 Charlotte Huck Award for outstanding fiction for children
Twelve-year-old Gabe doesn't know where he belongs anymore. His family is caught up in their own lives, and his soccer-star friends barely have time for him. In a desperate plea for attention, Gabe sets off fireworks in the woods near his house and causes a small forest fire.
In the chaos of the destruction, a coyote named Rill—tired of her family and longing for adventure—finds herself far from home. already on animal control's watch for snapping at a child, Rill crawls into a cave, where she nurses her wounds alone.
Gabe's and Rill's paths cross when Gabe is tasked with cleaning up the forest through the court's restorative justice program. the damage to the land and to both their lives is beyond what the two can imagine. But together, they discover that sometimes it only takes one friend to find the place where you belong.
Info
ISBN: 9780063290914
Published Date: July 11, 2023
Publisher: Clarion Books
Language: English
Page Count: 298
Size: 7.54" l x 5.17" w x 0.83" h
Age Classification: Ages 9 to 12
Category
Tweens Fiction