Wednesday, March 12, 2014

The Springsweet by Saundra Mitchell - ADVISABLE

Mitchell, Saundra  The Springsweet, 275 pgs.  Harcourt, 2012.  $16.99  Content: Language: PG (5 swears); Mature Content: PG-13; Violence: PG.  

Zora can’t get over the death of her fiancé Thomas, so she decides to go west and leave Boston behind.  In Oklahoma she lives with her young widowed aunt and helps care for her little cousin.  What Zora doesn’t expect to find in Oklahoma is Emerson, a young and irritating man who makes her feel things she hasn’t felt since Thomas died.  While Zora is trying to figure out her feelings for Emerson, and another love-interest, she learns that she can sense water and tries to help people find water sources on their land, but helping people doesn’t always work in her favor.  

This is a fast engaging story about a young girl in the wilds of the west.  She is trying to deal with heartache and new love while finding her purpose with her talents.  This book is better written than the first book in this series, The Vespertine, and the main characters strength make her a great protagonist.  Although the characters are seventeen, the content is clean enough for middle school.  

MS, HS-ADVISABLE.  Reviewer, C. Peterson. 

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