Adventures in the Glade

ISBN-1939289033

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Ten-year-old Davy Murray just knows that he is about to experience the worst summer of his entire life.  A remote farmhouse in the Nantahala Mountains of North Carolina, no electronics, a step-dad he can't stand, and a pesky sister who gets on his last nerve are just a few of the minor inconveniences he will have to put up with on the family vacation his mom and step-dad have planned. It will take something this side of miraculous to change Davy's angry, hostile attitude, and transform a family divided into a family united.



Written against the backdrop of an antebellum home deep in the Nantahalas, Martha Orlando writes with insight, warmth and humor as she chronicles the Murray/Hunter family vacation. Blended families and their vacations can be a challenge in the best of circumstances, but when there is an age-old family dispute, an eccentric and mysterious grandfather, and a clever squirrel named Grey to stir the pot, this quiet, relaxing vacation takes on some very unexpected and dangerous turns.  In her first novel, Orlando proves herself a masterful storyteller who understands and affirms the power of family to endure despite great hardship and loss.

-- Lynne Watts, author of The Call and Wyatt, the Wonder Dog (series)