Blue | TheBookSeekers

Blue


Bakers Mountain Stories

School year: Lower 6th, Upper 6th, Year 10, Year 11, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9

No. of pages 400

Published: 2013

Great for age 11-17 years

Add this book to your 'I want to read' list!

By clicking here you can add this book to your favourites list. If it is in your School Library it will show up on your account page in colour and you'll be able to download it from there. If it isn't in your school library it will still show up but in grey - that will tell us that maybe it is a book we should add to your school library, and will also remind you to read it if you find it somewhere else!

NATIONAL BESTSELLERChris Astor is a man in his early forties who is going through the toughest stretch of his life. Becky is Chris's fourteen-year-old daughter, a girl who overcame enormous challenges to become a vibrant, vital young woman - and now faces her greatest obstacle yet. Miea is the young queen of a fantasy land that Becky and Chris created when Becky was little, a fantasy land that has developed a life of its own and now finds itself in terrible, maybe fatal trouble. Together, Chris, Becky, and Miea need to uncover a secret. The secret to why their worlds have joined at this moment. The secret to their purpose. The secret to the future. It is a secret that, when discovered, will redefine imagination for all of them. BLUE is a novel of trial and hope, invention and rediscovery. It might very well take you someplace you never knew existed.

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

This book is part of a book series called Bakers Mountain Stories .

There are 400 pages in this book. This book was published in 2013 by The Story Plant .

Joyce Moyer Hostetter is the author of historical novels, including Blue , winner of the International Reading Association Children's Book Award. She lives with her husband in Hickory, North Carolina, close to her two adult children and nine grandchildren.

 

This book is in the following series:

Bakers Mountain Stories

This book has been nominated for the following awards:

North Carolina Children's Book Award - Junior
This book was recognised in the Junior category by the North Carolina Children's Book Award.

South Carolina Childrens Junior and Young Adult Book Award
This book was recognised by the South Carolina Childrens Junior and Young Adult Book Award.

Virginia Readers Choice Award - Middle School
This book was recognised in the Middle School category by the Virginia Readers Choice Award.

Parents' Choice Award
This book was recognised by the Parents' Choice Award.

Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award
This book was recognised by the Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award.

"Author Lou Aronica creates a world that manages to be both surreal and tangible. Reading this book is like experiencing a lucid dream with depth and detail that play on all five senses."--Blogcritics

 

"A unique story with plenty to ponder and excite, Blue will prove moving and very hard to put down."--Midwest Book Review

 

"Blue is an emotional, thought-provoking story that reaches in and squeezes the heart.... Blue made me cry and laugh. It enlivened my imagination and offered hope. This story is full of subtleties that tease the mind. I'm sure new wonders will come to light each time the story is read--it is a story to be enjoyed more than once. Becky and her Tamarisk Kingdom will be remembered long after the last words of Blue are read."--Long and Short Reviews