Candle Island new-322437 "Evok[es] the great Agatha Christie

"Evok[es] the great Agatha Christie classics…Pay close attention to seemingly throwaway details about the characters’ pasts

she can’t help but stray onto the road not taken

"This story is necessary

“Childlike drawings evoke each feeling with a playful style

Greenland to New York City

Candle Island new-322437 "Evok[es] the great Agatha ChristieA moving portrait of loss and the restorative power of art from Lauren Wolk, the Newbery Honor winning author of Beyond the Bright Sea. Lucretia Sanderson has a secret. Lucretia and her mother have come to tiny Candle Island, Maine (Population: Summer, 986; Winter, 315) to escape escape memories of the car accident that killed her father and escape the journalists that hound her mother, a famous and reclusive artist. The rocky coast and ocean breeze