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A Bend in the Breeze

by Valerie Sherrard
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When eleven-year-old Pascale Chardon finds herself on a lifeboat drifting toward an uncharted island with no memory of how she got there, all she wants is to get back to her family. The islanders, however, have a different objective. For many decades, the islanders have been anticipating the arrival of someone foretold only as the Long Awaited. The Long Awaited is said to have knowledge of the island's future and will tell the islanders of their fate seventeen days after their arrival. At first Pascale is sure she's not the Long Awaited, but when strange things begin to happen, she finds it impossible to be certain of anything. Could she be the Long Awaited after all? A Bend in the Breeze, award-winning author Valerie Sherrard's 30th novel, is a delightful tale about the importance of love and compassion.

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    April 16, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9781770866485

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      • ISBN: 9781770866485
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    • English

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    • Kirkus

      April 15, 2022
      Stranded on a mysterious island, a young girl wonders if she'll ever return to her family. After the ship she's traveling on with her aunt, uncle, and cousins encounters a storm, 11-year-old Pascale Chardon wakes up alone, adrift in a small boat. The tides carry her to the tiny tropical island of TeJ� along with her only companion, a black beetle she's named Inch. Until Pascale's arrival, the island has never had a visitor, and she's taken to the village Elders to see if she may be the Long Awaited, a prophesied stranger who will decide the community's future. The previously uninhabited island was populated generations ago by people from around the world who left their societies in search of peaceful coexistence. Legend says that the islanders' fate will be determined by whether the Long Awaited finds them living in peace and unity or conflict and strife. Pascale learns she must remain on TeJ� for 17 days to determine if she's the Long Awaited; however, she has no clue if she's the Long Awaited and just wants to go home. Pascale settles into the daily rhythm of a caring, cooperative community, and events seem to unfold glacially, mirroring the idyllic island's pace of life. When the long-awaited day finally arrives, the conclusion proves quite surprising. Pascale is presumably White; names point to the islanders' multicultural ancestry. A quiet, unassuming, somewhat uneventful tale reinforcing the adage "there's no place like home." (Fantasy. 8-11)

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