The wrong way home
Twelve-year-old Fern believes she's living a pure and principled life--but what if everything she's been told is a lie? This heart swelling story explores the power of lies we want to believe and one girl's journey to a new understanding of home. Fern's lived at the Ranch, an off-the-grid, sustainab...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2024.
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| Edition: | First edtion. |
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| Summary: | Twelve-year-old Fern believes she's living a pure and principled life--but what if everything she's been told is a lie? This heart swelling story explores the power of lies we want to believe and one girl's journey to a new understanding of home. Fern's lived at the Ranch, an off-the-grid, sustainable community in upstate New York, since she was six. The work is hard, but Fern admires the Ranch's leader, Dr. Ben. So when Fern's mother sneaks them away in the middle of the night and says Dr. Ben is dangerous, Fern doesn't believe it. She wants desperately to go back, but her mom just keeps driving. Suddenly Fern is thrust into the treacherous, toxic, outside world. At first she thinks only about how to get home. She has a plan, but it will take time. As that time goes by, though, Fern realizes there are things she will miss from this place-the library, a friend from school, the ocean-and there are things she learned at the Ranch that are just...not true. Now Fern will have to decide. How much is she willing to give up to return to the Ranch? Should she trust Dr. Ben's vision for her life? Or listen to the growing feeling that she can live by her own rules? |
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| Physical Description: | 325 pages ; 22 cm |
| Audience: | Ages 10 and up. Grades 4-6. |
| ISBN: | 9780593650738 0593650735 9780593650745 0593650743 9780593650769 059365076X |
| Author Notes: | She is a book nerd, animal lover, former chef, and an outdoor enthusiast. When she's not writing, you can find Kate in her garden, eating good food, hiking with her dog, and chronically mispronouncing words she's read but never heard said aloud. She lives in California with her family. |
