Home In The Woods

"It took one page of Eliza Wheeler’s Home in the Woods to make me cry. After her father dies, 6-year-old Marvel, her seven young siblings and their mother face the Great Depression on their own. Evicted from their home, they find a dilapidated tar paper shack in the woods and set about to make it a home. Following Marvel through a year of deprivation, hard work and ingenuity, Home in the Woods is a heartfelt love letter to our families who came before us and to putting family before ourselves. Wheeler’s illustrations are a revelation, using tint and saturation to evoke seasons of plenty and want. A poignant and personal story that will resound with any of us whose family stories include almost unimaginable hardship. (For ages 5 to 8)"