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K-Gr 3 Set during the Flood of 1927 in Vermont, Kinsey-Warnock's story reveals the tangled emotions and disrupted lives produced by natural disaster. When Wren's Grandpa starts building his wife a new house on a hill, she insists that she has everything she needs in the farmhouse where they raised their eight children. Before the structure is finished, unprecedented rainfall swells the nearby river and drives the family into it. Soon they are joined by 20 people and a variety of livestock....Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Wren and her grandparents might not have a lot of money, but life on their Vermont farm is far from impoverished. There is plenty to eat—milk, eggs, vegetables, apples, fish, maple syrup—and there is plenty of love. Despite Grandma's protestations (she insists the house where she has raised their eight children is just fine), Grandpa is building Grandma a new house on the hill. And it's a good thing, too. On November...Log In or Sign Up to Read More