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    Body of Water

    By Sarah Dooley

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    Twelve-year-old Ember's trailer home has been burned in a fire set most likely by her best friend, a boy whose father believes Ember's family are witches. Yes, Ember's mom reads Tarot cards as a business. Ember's friend set the fire to warn the family before his dad did something worse to them. The friend never intended to do so much damage.

    Now the family is homeless, and living in a campground. They have no money. Ember's beloved dog is missing. School is going to start, and Ember and her sister have no clean clothes, no notebooks. The only place Ember feels at peace is floating in the middle of the lake at the campground. She has to make a fresh start. Can she?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateOct 25, 2011
    ISBN9781429995344
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    Sarah Dooley

    As a child, Sarah Dooley lived twenty-four different places, including an abandoned post office, a tent, and a red cargo van. She now lives in West Virginia with her partner and their assortment of dogs, cats, and horses. When she is not writing, she has the pleasure of teaching, and being taught by, children with special needs. She was named a "Flying Start" author by Publishers Weekly for her debut novel, Livvie Owen Lived Here.

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    • 3/5
      After the family trailer burns down, Ember and her family live at a campground. Ember struggles with the loss, especially of her beloved dog Widdershins. She's also struggling with understanding why her best friend Anson set the fire, and whether she should pursue her Wiccan revenge spell.
    • 4/5
      A good book is one that makes you feel for the characters. A good book makes you think differently about people. A good book makes you want to do something - take action based on what you've read.This is one of those good books. Ember and family lose their trailer home to a fire one summer and end up homeless, living first in a church basement accepting begrudging charitable donations, and moving to a campground. It seems the fire was a warning - the family is Wiccan, an ancient earth religion, which celebrates the elements of earth, wind, fire and water and the power that these have. Ember gets her older brother to take her every Wednesday to the ruins of the trailer, to see what remains, and to untie the knots on a rope in a spell she's casting on the boy she thinks caused the blaze. She grieves for the loss of her dog, amplifying the misery of her current life situation. She takes solace in the lake, and the hope that maybe Widdershins can be found (sorry about the spelling - listened the audiobook).This story helps readers understand the Wiccan religion, and what it means to be homeless. Are Tarot card readings evil? Why doesn't the father or mother just find a job to help the family's predicament? And why do homeless and/or poor people seem to be fat - shouldn't they be emaciated and starving? This will be a great addition to my library's multicultural collection.