Bound To Stay Bound

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 When sea becomes sky
 Author: McDunn, Gillian

 Publisher:  Bloomsbury Children's Books (2023)

 Classification: Fiction
 Physical Description: 214 p.,  21 cm

 BTSB No: 624212 ISBN: 9781547610853
 Ages: 8-11 Grades: 3-6

 Subjects:
 Siblings -- Fiction
 Droughts -- fiction
 Statues -- Fiction

Price: $21.88

Summary:
As Pelican Island's history-making drought wears on, the water level on Bex and Davey's beloved marsh reveals the hand of a statue that has been underneath the water for who knows how long, and the siblings are determined to find out more.

Accelerated Reader Information:
   Interest Level: MG
   Reading Level: 4.50
   Points: 6.0   Quiz: 518341

Reviews:
   Kirkus Reviews (12/15/22)
   Booklist (+) (12/01/23)
 The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (+) (02/00/23)
 The Hornbook (00/01/23)

Full Text Reviews:

Booklist - 01/01/2023 *Starred Review* It’s June in coastal North Carolina, and 11-year-old Bex wants nothing more than to spend her summer exploring the salt marshes in her rowboat with her younger brother, Davey, who’s “a bit of a genius.” He has become uncommonly quiet over the past year. Meanwhile Bex, who aims to be a writer, feels that she needs his encouragement to keep trying. Currently, she’s in a creative dry spell. Her family lives on an island in a region where a drought is gradually lowering the water level in the marsh. Spotting a metallic hand reaching upwards from the water’s surface, Bex discovers a larger-than-life statue mostly submerged. Bex decides to find the sculptor and discover why this artwork was hidden in the marsh. McDunn, whose middle-grade novels include The Queen Bee and Me (2020) and Honestly Elliott (2022), creates memorable characters within a distinctive setting. Written with immediacy and grace, Bex’s first-person narrative increasingly focuses on the mystery and her determination to solve it with Davey’s help, until a meeting with the sculptor forces this unreliable narrator to reveal the central truth that she’s been hiding all along. It’s a pivotal moment for Bex and a wrenching one for readers of this quiet, yet fully engaging novel. - Copyright 2023 Booklist.

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