What we harvest

Title:

What we harvest

Author:

Fraistat, Ann, author.

Personal Author:

Fraistat, Ann, author.

ISBN:

9780593382165

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

pages cm

Abstract:

The farms of Hollow's End were blessed with miracle crops, especially the shimmering, iridescent wheat of Wren's family farm, but then the black mercury blight came, and the blight destroys everything: crops turned to silver-black sludge, animals sickenedand blinded, even people; Wren believes she is responsible, and desperate to save Hollow's End she turns to her ex-boyfriend--but they find that there is a lot they do not know about their town and its miracle crops, and that their ancestors have a lot to answer for.

Reading Level:

Ages 12+ . Delacorte Press.

Grades 10-12. Delacorte Press.

Subject Term:

Family farms -- Juvenile fiction.

Plant diseases -- Juvenile fiction.

Secrecy -- Juvenile fiction.

Responsibility -- Juvenile fiction.

Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction.

Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction.

Genre:

Young adult fiction.

Horror fiction.

Summary:

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Summary

For fans of Wilder Girls comes a nightmarish debut guaranteed to keep you up through the night, about an idyllic small town poisoned by its past, and one girl who must fight the strange disease that's slowly claiming everyone she loves.

Wren owes everything she has to her hometown, Hollow's End, a centuries-old, picture-perfect slice of America. Tourists travel miles to marvel at its miracle crops, including the shimmering, iridescent wheat of Wren's family's farm. At least, they did. Until five months ago.

That's when the Quicksilver blight first surfaced, poisoning the farms of Hollow's End one by one. It began by consuming the crops, thick silver sludge bleeding from the earth. Next were the animals. Infected livestock and wild creatures staggered off into the woods by day--only to return at night, their eyes fogged white, leering from the trees.

Then the blight came for the neighbors.

Wren is among the last locals standing, and the blight has finally come for her, too. Now the only one she can turn to is her ex, Derek, the last person she wants to call. They haven't spoken in months, but Wren and Derek still have one thing in common: Hollow's End means everything to them. Only, there's much they don't know about their hometown and its celebrated miracle crops. And they're about to discover that miracles aren't free.

Their ancestors have an awful lot to pay for, and Wren and Derek are the only ones left to settle old debts.

Reviews (1)

Kirkus Review

A small group of farms with magical crops are threatened by an all-consuming blight that creates zombielike creatures out of the people and animals it infects. Sixteen-year-old Wren's family grows rainbow-hued wheat in Hollow's End, an insular community that guards its clandestine history mightily. Even as Wren's beloved dog, Teddy, and people from neighboring farms go missing in the woods, returning as mindless creatures with white eyes that try to attack others, Wren's dad tries to conceal the alchemy that is the source of their livelihood. However, when Wren's mom and dad also disappear, she is forced to turn to her ex-boyfriend, Derek, for help. From his neighboring farm, she slowly begins to uncover a truth that also involves his family and two others. The richly developed details of the blight and its relationship to the people of Hollow's End lend interest and mystery to the familiar romance that also lies at the heart of this story. Likewise, the novel offers an original flavor to traditional zombie tropes, balancing taut, desperate, action-oriented escapes with longer passages describing alchemical rituals. Wren reads as White; Derek is cued as biracial, White and Latinx. A vivid and engrossing horror-tinged tale of magic and corrosive family secrets. (Paranormal fantasy. 12-18) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.