  | Girl from earth's end Author: Dairman, Tara | |
| Price: $23.28 | ||
Summary:
Gifted gardener Henna embarks from her island home to search for the plant that might save her papa's life.
| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: MG Reading Level: 5.90 Points: 14.0 Quiz: 518134 |
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (01/01/23)
School Library Journal (+) (02/01/23)
Booklist (02/15/23)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (00/03/23)
The Hornbook (00/03/23)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 02/15/2023 Isolated Earth’s End, with its crumbling monastery walls and carefully tended garden, is the only home 12-year-old Henna knows. When sickness overcomes one of her papas, Henna leaves for a plant-focused secondary school on another of the Gardenia Islands, where she is convinced she’ll find the nightwalker, a potentially extinct climbing vine and “botanical miracle-worker” with healing powers that might save her ailing father. As a scholarship student at St. Basil’s Conservatory, Henna has an urgent mission, and she meets an additional challenge: other children (the first she’s met), including roommates P (raucous and gender fluid) and Lora (rich, aloof, and disabled). The trio bond and collectively break conventions on their quest for nightwalker seeds, which expands each child’s understanding of familial love, acceptance, and the power of acknowledging one’s own limits. Henna’s is an endearing and compassionate tale in a richly rendered, slightly fantastical world with skillfully crafted story lines around conservation, sacrifices, and grief. Readers will root for Henna as she grows new peer relationships while nurturing an enduring love for her fathers. - Copyright 2023 Booklist.
