American Library Association Youth Media Awards 2025: The Wrong Way Home

by Kate O'Shaughnessy
Twelve-year-old Fern has been living with her mom in an off-the-grid sustainable Ranch community for six years. When her mom abruptly moves them both across the country and back into the world, Fern’s experiences broaden, and she has to decide whether to trust her mom and her new emerging self, or return to the Ranch and her former self.
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