On Snowden Mountain

ISBN: 0763697443

Author: Watts, Jeri

Condition: New

Twelve-year-old Ellen learns the quiet strength of family when her mothers deep depression prompts her to ask an estranged aunt for help.Ellens mother has struggled with depression before, but not like this. With her father away fighting in World War II and her mother unable to care for them, Ellens only option is to reach out to her cold, distant aunt Pearl. Soon enough, city-dwelling Ellen and her mother are shepherded off to the countryside to Aunt Pearls home, a tidy white cottage at the base of Snowden Mountain. Adjusting to life in a small town is no easy thing: the school has one room, one of her classmates smells of skunks, and members of the community seem to whisper about Ellens family. But even as she worries that depression is a family curse to which shell inevitably succumb, Ellen slowly begins to carve out a space for herself and her mother on Snowden Mountain in this thoughtful, heartfelt middle-grade novel from Jeri Watts.