The Snow Angel
Lauren St. John, Gillian Burke
Lauren St John’s stunning Christmas classic is about forgotten children, the power of nature to heal us and a girl who will climb mountains in search for a place to call home. Nominated for the 2019 Carnegie Medal.
Growing up in vibrant, crowded Nairobi, Makena has only one dream: to climb Mount Kenya like her hero, her mountain guide father. But when her beautiful world is shattered, she finds that in the city’s dark places there are a thousand ways to fall, each more deadly than any crevasse. In a world of strangers, does she dare trust Snow, whose ballet dreams are haunted by a past she’s still running from? And is the sparkling fox friend or foe?
After a fresh start in the Scottish Highlands turns bad, Makena flees to the mountains. But will they betray her or be the making of her?
Reviews
Great book.9 to 14 year old's.
Countess Mildred Haystack 10.08.2020
What I thought about the book is if the character ever went to school when she was living in Scotland because in Kenya she would go to school. The character's name is Makena and she loves the mountains, once she went on a trip with her father there.By a pond, in between the reeds, she sees a beautiful animal she shows her father and says it's a fox and it looked like a snow Angel but her father said that there were no foxes in the mountains of Kenya .Until her mother and father died. She had to stay at her aunt's house however she was cruel so she ran away to the slums and makes a friend, Snow for her birthday Snow gives her jar to pùt snow in it just like the snow in the mountains.... In Scotland she does.
Anonymous 04.01.2020
An AMAZING book with a real twist at the end.
Anonymous 12.08.2019
Happy but sad
Professor Mistral Foxtail 03.08.2019
Ok
Anonymous 29.07.2019
