Candle Island Elise Kova * Why we sing carols

* Why we sing carols

and shocking betrayals as they attempt to undo the wrongs of the past and heal their broken land

Despite their torture and cruelty

wherever we are

a searing investigation into the enormous black market for firearms

Candle Island Elise Kova * Why we sing carolsA moving portrait of loss and the restorative power of art from Lauren Wolk, the Newbery Honor winning author of Beyond the Bright Sea. Lucretia Sanderson has a secret. Lucretia and her mother have come to tiny Candle Island, Maine (Population: Summer, 986; Winter, 315) to escape escape memories of the car accident that killed her father and escape the journalists that hound her mother, a famous and reclusive artist. The rocky coast and ocean breeze