Upend means to "set or turn something on its head upside down". So a great upending sounds like it would be extremely serious in anyone's life (some may say that the year 2020 has upended the entire world, nut that's another story. Kephart introduces us to Sara, a kid who is called "giant" by other kids but who has a serious illness which makes her body oddly proportioned.
Sara and her brother Hawk live life very differently to many of the children that I know- of course I live in the suburbs where life tends to follow more defined patterns. For Sara and her brother, witnessing struggle and loss on a farm has made them very mindful about things like using too much water, using ingredients and taking care of goats.
A new visitor to the farm is mysterious and does not want to be bothered. The curious kids however want to learn more about who he is and what he does and in the course of this, discover things that will change their world indeed
The ramifications of things that have occurred are still with us today. As children growing up we often don't reflect on the life of our parents, but they had lives, hopes and dreams of their own before we came into their life. Sometimes, a kindness that someone in our family tree did for someone way back when can rebound on us in ways that we never would have imagined. Some read alikes to this book are Kate Dicamillo's Louisiana's Way Home and Patricia MacLachlan's Dream Within a Dream.
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