| Wish You Well Contributor(s): Baldacci, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0446699489 ISBN-13: 9780446699488 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2007 Annotation: David Baldacci has always delivered great stories, authentic characters, and thought-provoking ideas since he burst on the literary scene with Absolute Power. Now this versatile writer movingly evokes the charms of rural America as he makes us believe in the great and little miracles that can change lives -- or save them. Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes -- and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on their great-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains. Suddenly Lou finds herself coming of age in a new landscape, making her first true friend, and experiencing adventures tragic, comic, and audacious. But the forces of greed and justice are about to clash over her new home...and as their struggle is played out in a crowded Virginia courtroom, it will determine the future of two children, an entire town, and the mountains they love. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 840 |
| Physical Information: 1.25" H x 5.54" W x 8.02" (0.85 lbs) 432 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Appalachians - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Demographic Orientation - Small Town - Geographic Orientation - Virginia - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Topical - Family |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 55239 Reading Level: 5.9 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 15.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Following a family tragedy, siblings Lou and Oz must leave New York and adjust to life in the Virginia mountains--but just as the farm begins to feel like home, they'll have to defend it from a dark threat in this New York Times bestselling coming-of-age story. Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on their great-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains. Suddenly Lou finds herself growing up in a new landscape, making her first true friend, and experiencing adventures tragic, comic, and audacious. When a dark, destructive force encroaches on her new home, her struggle will play out in a crowded Virginia courtroom...and determine the future of two children, an entire town, and the mountains they love. |