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School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2011 | Grades 5-up
Gr 3–5—A moderately successful blending of a tender family story with a hair-raising adventure. Nine-year-old Maple feels unsettled when a monarch butterfly—out of season in chilly October Vermont—lights on the kitchen window; shortly afterwards, her mother goes into premature labor and baby Lily is born, small and weak. When feisty Maple overhears her father saying, "I am praying for a miracle," she believes that if she can only collect water from the fountain of the legendary old woma...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2011
Maple and Dawn, hoping for a miracle to save their baby sister, set off in search of the Wise Woman, a rock formation in the mounta...Log In or Sign Up to Read More