Mountain Pose

By Nancy Hope Wilson

Book Overview

A story about family and forgiveness Ellie Dunklee lost her mother when she was five, and hasn't seen her estranged grandmother since the funeral. Now the grandmother, Aurelia, dies, and Ellie is surprised to learn that she has inherited her home and most of her possessions, including a host of family diaries which Aurelia, in her will, requests that Ellie read. All that Aurelia leaves to her surviving child, Ellie's Uncle Lyman, is an empty chest. Conflicted and confused by the bequest, Ellie discovers that she loves her property, beautiful Hart Farm in rural Vermont, and the connection to her mother's past. But as she reads the diaries, Ellie uncovers a long history of child and spousal abuse that accounts for Aurelia's odd behavior. As she struggles with the knowledge, Ellie remembers her mother's words: "We forgive people for our own sake." Nancy Hope Wilson's unusual, heartfelt, and fascinating story was inspired by her own ancestors' diaries.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374350787
• ISBN13: 9780374350789
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.7" x 0.9" x 5.5"
• Age Range: 10 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher

Customer Reviews

exccelent to the end

Mountain Pose,is about a girl who loses a grandma that she hardly knew exsisted.In her grandma's will,Ellie is given the land and some old diaries with secret symbol sentenes.Ellie and her best friend Leese try to figure out what the secret symbols really mean.Ellie's father isn't sure if he should let Ellie have the land.He thinks the diaries will cause somthing to hppen to her.Father and Ellie move to the land, and Ellie starts to like it. I think the author was trying to put the message that it doesn't matter where you are,you should try to keep close to your friends.The other message is to not be frieghtened when something big happens because you don't how it's going to turn out. This book is fantastic because the author makes everything in the book realalistic. Moutain Pose is both sad, happy,and very exciting.It was hard for me to put the book down.

Realistic and riveting

Nancy Hope Wilson's Mountain Pose tells of Ellie, who receives an unexpected inheritance of family records when her estranged grandmother dies. Ellie finds the family farm and diaries a powerful connection to a veiled past: despite her father's warning she reads them and begins to understand the tensions which have divided their lives. Realistic and riveting.