Novel offers message of hope in hard times

They learn that the evil queen has escaped her mirror prison once again and is planning to find the treacherous Shadow High to rule it, which leads the characters into an exciting adventure with a great, exciting story line.

If the readers didn’t know anything about the books “Monster High” or “Ever After High,” then it would probably be quite confusing in the beginning, but they would ope in The Holler,” by Lisa Lewis Tyre, is a surprising book with a even more surprising story line.

Before Wavy’s mother dies, she gives her daughter a list of papers to help her enjoy life and, the most noticed one says, “Be Brave, Wavy B. you’ve got as much right to a good life as anyone else, so find it!”

And when Wavy is sent to live with her aunts in the Appalachian hometown where her mother grew up, she thinks it will be a completely new adventure where she gets to see where her own mother came from.

Little does she know that things here are anything but normal, with commanding aunts around, crazy neighbors and far much more, so that Wavy wants nothing more than to escape this hectic life.

With the help of one of her aunts, Wavy just might have the chance to leave and escape the fate of having her aunts become her permanent guardians, and to be able to find where she belongs in the world.

I think this book is good and I would recommend it to fifth graders or strong fourth grade readers and up.

There were definitely some things that little kids might not understand but, in terms of vocabulary, anyone can read it if they want to.

I think that “Hope in the Holler” was pretty good and a short, quick read for vacations since it is fairly thin with only about 210 pages.

Those who read this will find hope in the most desperate times, even if it means struggling through the deepest troubles.