Ellen Airgood

This charming, coming-of-age story is perfect for fans of Joan Bauer and Sheila Turnage.
Prairie Evers is finding that school isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. She’s always been homeschooled by her grandmother, learning about life while they ramble through the woods. But now Prairie’s family has moved north and she has to attend school for the first time, where her education is in a classroom and the behavior of her...

When they are evicted from their home on Lake Superior, and a dangerous incident threatens to separate them, Laurel Hill and her precocious daughter Skye, who have always been each other’s everything, must decide whether or not to embrace the wildness and emptiness that has defined them.