On a Facebook Historical Book Page that I am a member of, The Lost Girl by Liz Harris was promoted by the author as a Kindle read for those who liked Historical Fiction set in the old west times. Also I sort of expected something to be up more specifically with Lark, with the wolf in the closet and all. And with me in it, Camp Awesome is not ironic at all. It's refreshing that the heroine is brave but also vulnerable and relatable (not all female protagonists have to be as kickass as The Hunger Games' Katniss). The other townsfolk shun her, she’s bullied at school and has no friends. Her next book, THE LOST GIRL, will be out in February 2018. Joe doesn't want to work in the dark and hates the idea of being underground. She is also the recipient of a McKnight Fellowship. We’d love your help. Fantastic read captures reader attention from beginning to end. However, the ethical issues which underpin the tale are somewhat glossed over. I know it was supposed to be touching and affirming, but I couldn't get into all of the strangeness. See all 13 questions about The Lost Girls…, 2016: What Women Born In The 1970s Read in 2016, SOLVED. Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2019. I knew that it contained the big secret - but what exactly was the big secret? The author of The Real Boy and Breadcrumbs returns with a new marvelous read for middle graders. Unfortunately, after reading the author's note about the patriarchy and "subversive female friendships" and then seeing reviews here on Goodreads associating the book with #MeToo and the Resistance, I have decided not to read it after all. I kept waiting for something—anything to happen. I highly recommend this to all readers, regardless of age or gender, because of what it has to say about growing up, finding yourself, and being independent vs. knowing when you need help. Young’s summation: the patriarchy hurts women and girls, but it hurts men and boys just as much. Some years later Justine receives notice that she has inherited the lake house from her grandaunt Lucy. After a downward spiral into “drinking, drugging, and purging,” Doyle found sobriety and the authentic self she’d been suppressing. A house she and her o Powerful story about sisterhood, twinhood, girlhood. WOW! She only shows up for a chapter, but she is kick-butt! In the summer of 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her family’s vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. A slower paced book, a family, with three daughters and it is the youngest, Emily, just six who disappears and is never found. I requested an ARC of this book based on how much I enjoyed the author's previous novel, Breadcrumbs. It definitely must be a different era. The author does a superb job of showing the reader the racial tensions between the whites and the Chinese in 1870s Wyoming. I loved this book so much! [ that in the end it wasn't Iris saving Lark, but Lark coming to Iris' rescue. This beautiful, sad, haunting novel is one of the best books I have read this year. Instead, we get to follow Lucy's memories from the notebook where she has written down what really happened to her little sister 60 years previous. A really well written debut by Heather Young. Liz describes Wyoming post gold rush so well, I felt as if I was there! Walden Pond, $16.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-227509-7 . So well-crafted that even when the first 2/3 or so is more about the beautiful writing and the interesting world-building than it is about the characters or themes, I know to push on... and then I say Oh!