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Months after catching a common virus, twelve-year-old Ivy still hasn't recovered.
Ivy doesn't even have the energy to play music. Hoping a change of scenery will help, she's spending the summer in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, where her uncle has converted an old house into a bed and breakfast. The Everly House has a long history--including a stint as a sanatorium, a treatment center for tuberculosis patients, in the 1920s.
Ivy starts having dreams about a girl named Jessie Pearl, a TB patient who stayed at the house a hundred years ago. Like Ivy, Jessie was an adventurous musician who struggled to adapt to her sickness. But at the Everly House, she was able to rest, listen to her body, and find new ways to fill her time.
As Ivy delves into the history of the house, hoping to find out what happened to Jessie, she makes other discoveries that turn her summer in the mountains into a new beginning.
Author: Shannon Hitchcock
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books (R)
Published: 03/03/2026
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9798765670828
Audience: Ages 9-12
Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 02/01/2026 pg. 50
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2026
About the Author
Hitchcock, Shannon: - Shannon Hitchcock grew up on her grandparents' farm in rural North Carolina. She is the author of numerous middle grade novels including Flying Over Water, cowritten with N.H. Senzai which was selected as a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, and Dancing in the Storm, cowritten with Amie Darnell Specht which was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.
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Months after catching a common virus, twelve-year-old Ivy still hasn't recovered.
Ivy doesn't even have the energy to play music. Hoping a change of scenery will help, she's spending the summer in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, where her uncle has converted an old house into a bed and breakfast. The Everly House has a long history--including a stint as a sanatorium, a treatment center for tuberculosis patients, in the 1920s.
Ivy starts having dreams about a girl named Jessie Pearl, a TB patient who stayed at the house a hundred years ago. Like Ivy, Jessie was an adventurous musician who struggled to adapt to her sickness. But at the Everly House, she was able to rest, listen to her body, and find new ways to fill her time.
As Ivy delves into the history of the house, hoping to find out what happened to Jessie, she makes other discoveries that turn her summer in the mountains into a new beginning.
Author: Shannon Hitchcock
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books (R)
Published: 03/03/2026
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9798765670828
Audience: Ages 9-12
Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 02/01/2026 pg. 50
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2026
About the Author
Hitchcock, Shannon: - Shannon Hitchcock grew up on her grandparents' farm in rural North Carolina. She is the author of numerous middle grade novels including Flying Over Water, cowritten with N.H. Senzai which was selected as a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, and Dancing in the Storm, cowritten with Amie Darnell Specht which was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection.
