Wolf Hollow

"In your lifetime as a reader, you have probably heard many books likened to Harper Lee’s classic, To Kill a Mockingbird, and you’ve probably been let down by most of them. Not all books with literary aspirations told from a child’s point of view are created equal. But when reviewers draw a parallel between Mockingbird and Lauren Wolk’s Wolf Hollow, they are being neither hyperbolic, nor lazy. They are merely doing justice to Wolk’s beautiful story about 11-year-old Annabelle and the year she spends terrorized by the town bully, attempting to protect the shell-shocked World War I veteran who has retreated to Annabelle’s corner of rural Pennsylvania to try and find himself again. (For ages 10 and up)"