Description
Wild Blues by Beth Kephart is a young adult adventure novel about friendship, courage and finding strength when life becomes frighteningly uncertain.
Thirteen-year-old Lizzie loves spending summers at her uncle Davy’s secluded cabin on the edge of the Adirondacks. With her father gone and her mother undergoing cancer treatment, the cabin offers an escape from the worries waiting at home. It is also where Lizzie spends her days with her best friend, Matias, a talented young artist who has proportionate dwarfism. Together, they explore the woods, with Matias painting and Lizzie writing.
But when Matias fails to arrive at their favourite spot, Lizzie grows worried. Then she learns that two convicts have escaped from a nearby prison, and her uncle disappears too. Knowing the surrounding wilderness better than most, Lizzie sets off alone, relying on her survival handbook and her own resourcefulness to find the people she loves.
Set against the rugged beauty of the Adirondacks, this gripping story combines wilderness adventure with an intimate portrait of a young girl facing fear, family upheaval and the limits of what one person can do.
