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The Art of Holding On and Letting Go
By Kristin Lenz
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A Junior Library Guild Fall 2016 Selection
"When every piece falls into place, it's like a dance, a delicate but powerful balancing act. The art of holding on and letting go at the same time."
Competitive climber Cara Jenkins feels most at home high off the ground, clinging to a rock wall by her fingertips. She's enjoyed a roaming life with her mountaineering parents, making the natural world her jungle gym, the writings of Annie Dillard and Henry David Thoreau her textbooks. But when tragedy strikes on an Ecuadoran mountaintop, Cara's nomadic lifestyle comes to an abrupt halt.
Starting over at her grandparents' home in suburban Detroit, Cara embarks on a year of discovery, uncovering unknown strengths, friendships, and first love. Cara's journey illustrates the transformative power of nature, love and loss, and discovering that home can be far from where you started.
"When every piece falls into place, it's like a dance, a delicate but powerful balancing act. The art of holding on and letting go at the same time."
Competitive climber Cara Jenkins feels most at home high off the ground, clinging to a rock wall by her fingertips. She's enjoyed a roaming life with her mountaineering parents, making the natural world her jungle gym, the writings of Annie Dillard and Henry David Thoreau her textbooks. But when tragedy strikes on an Ecuadoran mountaintop, Cara's nomadic lifestyle comes to an abrupt halt.
Starting over at her grandparents' home in suburban Detroit, Cara embarks on a year of discovery, uncovering unknown strengths, friendships, and first love. Cara's journey illustrates the transformative power of nature, love and loss, and discovering that home can be far from where you started.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Simply beautiful! The beginning was tough to get through, but what a lovely poetic book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Cara is an award-winning competitive rock climber but when her parents suffer an accident she is scuttled to her grandparents' home in (flat!) Michigan. Cara loses the will to climb and wants to remain anonymous yet someone is leaving notes in her locker that suggest s/he knows her adventurous history. How can Cara make peace with her new life when someone is trying to remind her of the past? A wholesome coming-of-age story with a PG romance thrown in.