Echo

By Pam Muñoz Ryan

Book Overview

Newbery Honor Book

New York Times Bestseller

Children's Literature Legacy Award Winner

This impassioned, uplifting, and virtuosic tour de force from a treasured storyteller follows three children, in three different times and places, whose lives mysteriously intersect.

Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica.

Decades later, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California each, in turn, become interwoven when the very same harmonica lands in their lives. All the children face daunting challenges: rescuing a father, protecting a brother, holding a family together. And ultimately, pulled by the invisible thread of destiny, their suspenseful solo stories converge in an orchestral crescendo.

Richly imagined and masterfully crafted, Echo pushes the boundaries of genre, form, and storytelling innovation to create a wholly original novel that will resound in your heart long after the last note has been struck.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439874025
• ISBN13: 9780439874021
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Scholastic Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.1" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8

Customer Reviews

Recommend!

I am a subscriber to the Read Aloud Revival, and Sarah suggested the audio. Awesome!

Magical

This is a beautifully written fairy tale story. It is very touching the way it describes love and care between a family, between siblings, and among others. It’s magical and uplifting.

Echo is great

I really enjoyed this book, it pulls you into the different time periods and places in which it takes place, and has you caring for all 3 of the mcs. It is dramatic and uniting while unpredictable and it left me wanting more (and wanting to know how to play the harmonica)