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eBook details
- Title: Crossing the Stream
- Author : Elizabeth-Irene Baitie
- Release Date : January 08, 2021
- Genre: Family & Relationships,Books,Kids,Fiction,Young Adult,Coming of Age,Culture, Places & People,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 3737 KB
Description
"A powerful coming-of-age story of self-discovery and overcoming fear.āāKirkus Reviews, starred review
Ato hasnāt visited his grandmotherās house since he was seven. Heās heard the rumors that sheās a witch, and his mother has told him he must never sit on the old couch on her porch. Now here he is, on that exact couch, with a strange-looking drink his grandmother has given him, wondering if the rumors are true. Whatās more, thereās a freshly dug hole in her yard that Ato suspects may be a grave meant for him.
Meanwhile at school, Ato and his friends have entered a competition to win entry to Nnoma, the island bird sanctuary that Atoās father helped created. But something is poisoning the community garden where their project is housed, and Ato sets out to track down the culprit. In doing so, he brings his estranged mother and grandmother back together, and begins healing the wounds left on the family by his fatherās death years before.
And that hole in the yard? It is a grave, but not for the purpose Ato feared, and its use brings a tender, celebratory ending to this deeply felt and universal story of healing and love from one of Ghanaās most admired childrenās book authors.