"A girl lost. A body found. The truth buried." In a small Wisconsin town in 1871, the greatest recorded nesting of passenger pigeons occurred. When the birds are gone, so is Agatha Burkhardt. When the sheriff goes looking for her, all he finds is a nearly unidentifiable body wearing a dress that she owned. Although the family believes Agatha is dead, her sister Georgie refuses to accept the body as evidence and goes in search of Agatha herself. Where her quest leads her and what she finds at the end of it is the heart of this story. An incredibly well-written novel worthy of the Newbery Honor award it received, One Came Home is not for the struggling reader but would make a great shared reader with those who are more advanced.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
One Came Home by Amy Timberlake
"A girl lost. A body found. The truth buried." In a small Wisconsin town in 1871, the greatest recorded nesting of passenger pigeons occurred. When the birds are gone, so is Agatha Burkhardt. When the sheriff goes looking for her, all he finds is a nearly unidentifiable body wearing a dress that she owned. Although the family believes Agatha is dead, her sister Georgie refuses to accept the body as evidence and goes in search of Agatha herself. Where her quest leads her and what she finds at the end of it is the heart of this story. An incredibly well-written novel worthy of the Newbery Honor award it received, One Came Home is not for the struggling reader but would make a great shared reader with those who are more advanced.
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