Wild Mountain Ivy
Binding: Hardcover
Age 10+
General Fiction
An accessible blend of contemporary and historical fiction celebrating the many ways to live a satisfying life with chronic illness
Twelve-year-old Ivy is still sick months after catching a common virus. Hoping for a reset, Ivy and her mom spend the summer in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where Ivy's uncle has converted an old house into a bed and breakfast. Ivy starts dreaming about a girl named Jessie Pearl, who stayed at the house a hundred years ago when it was a sanatorium, a treatment center for tuberculosis patients. As Ivy delves into the history of the house, hoping to find out what happened to Jessie, she also makes changes in her own life—discovering that rest isn't weakness, that difference isn't failure, and that healing can come in many forms.
Creators
Shannon Hitchcock grew up on her grandparents' farm in rural North Carolina. She is the author of numerous middle grade novels including Flying Over Water, cowritten with N.H. Senzai which was selected as a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, and Dancing in the Storm, cowritten with Amie Darnell Specht which was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.
