Out Stealing Horses Hester Velmans To the River is a

To the River is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love

In the last years of the dying Qing Empire

And what will become of her now

until she visits Mighty’s house: it’s big and old and creaky and definitely haunted

two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo brings us this first of three tales celebrating unlikely friendship and the power of sharing stories and doing the right thing—a soon-to-be classic brought to expressive life by the full-color illustrations of Carmen Mok

Out Stealing Horses Hester Velmans To the River is aWe were going out stealing horses, he said, standing in the doorway of the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was 1948, one of the first days of July. Jon often arrived at Tronds door with some new adventure in mind. But this morning is different. What begins as a carefree ride on borrowed horses ends with Jon overcome by a strange grief, and Trond soon learns about the incident that set it offan event that marks