eleven-year-old Dorothy “Donkey” Zook
the magicians of the House of Life are on the brink of civil war
But that’s not all―he insists on knowing the whereabouts of his missing nephew
Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula
With all the powerful storytelling she brought to her award-winning debut
This Other Eden by Paul Harding holiday eleven-year-old Dorothy “Donkey” ZookIn 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated, and often hungry, but nevertheless protected from the hostility awaiting them on the mainland. During the tumultuous summer of 1912, Matthew Diamond, a retired, idealistic but prejudiced schoolteacher turned