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Reinhardt, Dana

How to Build a House

227 pp. | Random/Lamb | May, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-0-375-84453-9 $15.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-375-94454-3 $18.99
(2) YA Seventeen-year-old Harper volunteers to help build a house for a family that lost theirs in a tornado. Sections alternate between "Here" and "Home" as likable narrator Harper catches readers up on her own broken family. The many parallels between house-building and home-wrecking (then rebuilding) are subtle and believable. The story, full of difficulty and pain, is ultimately deeply satisfying.
Reviewer: Jennifer M. Brabander | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2008

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