Sylvie, 12, is a runner whose burning wish is to run faster but one morning when she doesn’t return from a last-minute dash to the Slip, Jules can only find a tree root poking out of the path, followed by a gash in the snow that ends at the river. These rocks are for writing a burning wish that might just come true when cast into the Slip. Jules, 11, is a rock hound who loves sorting her collection into “Sherman Galaxies” of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rock, but wish rocks are a category unto
However, this wild, watery place in the woods behind their Vermont home holds a particular allure: it is the perfect place to throw wish rocks. Among Jules and Sylvie Sherman’s dad’s Do Not rules is that they are never to go near the Slip, a dangerous point where the Whippoorwill River surges beneath the ground before reemerging downstream.
Kathi Appelt and Alison McGhee’s collaborative novel entwines the story of one girl’s grief with that of a fox with a rare, but important destiny. Writing in alternate voices-one Jules’s, the other the fox’s-Kathi Appelt and Alison McGhee tell the searingly beautiful tale of one small family’s moment of heartbreak, a moment that unfolds into one that is epic, mythic, shimmering, and most of all, hopeful. And when Jules believes one last wish rock for Sylvie needs to be thrown into the river, the human and shadow worlds collide. She’s too young to know exactly what she senses, but she knows something is very wrong.
She too is fast-faster than fast-and she senses danger. Jules is devastated, but she refuses to believe what all the others believe, that-like their mother-her sister is gone forever.Īt the very same time, in the shadow world, a shadow fox is born-half of the spirit world, half of the animal world. But Sylvie is too fast, and when she runs to the river they’re not supposed to go anywhere near to throw a wish rock just before the school bus comes on a snowy morning, she runs so fast that no one sees what happens…and no one ever sees her again. And if only Sylvie wasn’t such a fast-faster than fast-runner. Better than just sisters, better than best friends, they’d be identical twins if only they’d been born in the same year. Worlds collide in a spectacular way when Newbery and National Book Award finalist Kathi Appelt and Pulitzer Prize nominee and #1 New York Times bestseller Alison McGhee team up to create a fantastical, heartbreaking, and gorgeous tale about two sisters, a fox cub, and what happens when one of the sisters disappears forever.
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