As a digital subscriber, you’ll receive unlimited access to Horn Book web exclusives and extensive archives, as well as access to our highly searchable Guide/Reviews Database.
To access other site content, visit The Horn Book homepage.
To continue you need an active subscription to hbook.com.
Subscribe now to gain immediate access to everything hbook.com has to offer, as well as our highly searchable Guide/Reviews Database, which contains tens of thousands of short, critical reviews of books published in the United States for young people.
Thank you for registering. To have the latest stories delivered to your inbox, select as many free newsletters as you like below.
No thanks. Return to article
173 pp.
| Feminist
| February, 2002
|
TradeISBN 1-55861-277-7$$12.50
(4)
4-6
Girls First! series.
When twelve-year-old Willa spends the summer in Seattle with her aunts, one of whom is a naturalist, she and her cousins get the "eco-sleuthing" bug and attempt to learn who is polluting a local stream. The book's mystery proves limp, but the novel is also about Willa's reckoning with her multiracial family and with her parents' divorce, topics Wilson handles well.