2 books by Kelly Easton
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Overview: KELLY EASTON is the author of several young adult novels: The Life History of a Star, Walking on Air, Aftershock, and Hiroshima Dreams, as well as the Betts Pets series for children. Her stories and books have been singled out for various honors, including a Golden Kite Honor for Fiction from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, a Julia Ward Howe Honor, a Book Sense 76 Best Book listing, a Westchester’s Choice listing, ALA listings, a North Carolina Writers’ Workshop Prize, and the Sojourner Fiction Prize. Kelly Easton is also a teacher. She lives in Rhode Island and on Martha’s Vineyard with her husband, Michael Ruben, and their children: Rebecca, Mollie, Isabelle, and Isaac.
Genre: Young Adult
The Outlandish Adventures of Liberty Aimes
Liberty Aimes has spent all of her ten years captive in her parents’ crooked old house on Gooch Street. Her spry father, Mal Aimes, is a crook who sells insurance, while her overweight mother sits at home in front of the TV, demanding that Liberty cook nonstop, everything from fried clams and fried hot dogs to ice cream sundaes. Liberty’s only knowledge of the outside world comes from the secret stash of children’s books and fairy tales she discovered beneath the floorboards.
One day, Liberty works up the courage to enter her father’s forbidden basement laboratory. There she discovers a world of talking animals and magic potions. With the aid of one such potion, Liberty escapes into the world–and learns that she can talk to animals. She decides her destiny is to find the renowned Sullivan School, where she can live and get an education. Along the way, she meets a wacky cast of characters–some become true friends, but others want to kidnap her.
Walking on Air
But today I dream of falling…into the crowd of God-struck people. The pale leaves of their faces tilt up and their white limbs rise to catch me as I am passed among the river of their hands, one to another, am kept by them, am kept. — from "Walking on Air"
It is the Depression in America, 1931. Twelve-year-old June is a tightrope walker. Performing in her preacher father’s revival shows, June travels through cities, makeshift camps, carnivals, and freak shows. The family has no home, no money, no friends — and faith that is getting thinner than the air upon which June walks. On her journey June examines her life and is torn between loyalty to her family and their religion, and the life she might have. She comes to understand that discovering what the world has in store for her will require facing old family secrets and making some gut-wrenching decisions.
"Walking on Air" is a stirring novel of self-examination, as June balances on a literal and figurative tightrope within the rich and tormented landscape of America during the Depression. Facing the problems of her day, June must use her wit, fire, and strong spirit in order to triumph.
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