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The wrong way home / Kate O'Shaughnessy.

by O'Shaughnessy, Kate.

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Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.

Mothers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction.

Adjustment (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction.

Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.

Cults -- Juvenile fiction.

9780593650738 (hc.)

9780593650745 (library binding)

9780593650769 (pbk.)

325 p. ; 22 cm.

"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.

"When twelve-year-old Fern and her mother abruptly leave their isolated, off-the-grid community, Fern wants nothing more than to return, but things get murky as she slowly adjusts to her new life and discovers unsettling truths about her old one"-- provided by publisher.

Fern has spent half her life at the Ranch, an off-the-grid, self-sustaining community in upstate New York. The work is hard, but Fern loves it and admires the Ranch's wise leader, Dr. Ben. So when Fern's mother sneaks them away in the middle of the night and says that Dr. Ben is dangerous, Fern doesn't believe it. She wants desperately to go back, but her mom just keeps driving. Suddenly Fern is thrust into the treacherous toxic outside world. At first she thinks only of how to get back home. She has a plan, but it will take time. And as that time goes by, Fern realizes there are things she will miss from this place -- the library, a friend from school, the ocean -- and there are things she learned at the ranch that are just... not true. New Fern will have to decie. How much is she willing to give up to return to the Ranch? Should she trust Dr. Ben's vision for her life? Or listen to the growing feeling that she can live by her own rules?

Ages 10 and up. Alfred A. Knopf.

Grades 4-6. Alfred A. Knopf.

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