Lisle wastes an appealing cast in this clumsy, contrived tale of a
confused but resolute child who tracks down and reunites her
forcibly separated parents-while also reuniting a mother with a
child thought dead, stopping a war, rescuing captured wolves, and
more. Copper Beech, 10, has always believed herself abandoned,
until suddenly dispatched to the far-off Marble Mountains, where
she finds herself caught between her father's extended family of
woodworkers, living inside a huge tree, and cave-dwelling Rockers,
hostile relatives on her mother's side who insist that they've been
cheated out of a shipment of gold. Despite the author's overuse of
the "evasive answer" trick, Copper soon discovers that her father
is hiding in an upper story of the tree, and her mother has
magically sealed herself inside the mountain to escape a
captor/suitor. Amid a welter of good hunches, telegraphed
revelations, cliffhangers both figurative and literal, and
convenient magic, Copper takes care of business-all without much
fuss, danger, or suspense. Like the misshapen knitting that she
compulsively produces, this never weaves itself into a finished
whole, despite some enjoyable, even ingenious, elements. (Fiction.
10-12) (Kirkus Reviews)
On Copper Beech's 10th birthday her aunt suddenly sends her away to
the Snowy Mountains to stay with family she had never known she
had. In a bleak landscape of ice and snow, wood and stone, Copper
finds herself battling against strange forces trying to destroy
her. The fearsome Granite, king of the rock mountain, holds the key
to all the mysteries, but he would rather lock her up in his dank
prison than explain. Even the rest of the family living in the
Beech house are not telling her all they know. She finds that for
her own safety she must attempt to establish what has happened to
her parents, who have both disappeared, and may not have died as
she had previously supposed.
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