The Canning Season
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One night out of the blue, Ratchet Clark’s ill-natured mother announces that Ratchet will be leaving their Pensacola apartment immediately to take the train up north. There she will spend the summer with her twin great aunts Penpen and Tilly, who couldn’t look more different from each other. Staying at their secluded house in Maine, Ratchet is treated to a passel of strange family history and local lore, along with heaps of generosity and care that she’s never experienced before.
Penpen has recently espoused a new philosophy—whatever shows up on your doorstep you have to let in. Through thick wilderness, down forgotten, bear-ridden roads, come a variety of characters, drawn to Penpen and Tilly’s open door. It is with vast reservations that the cautious Tilly allows these unwelcome guests in. But it turns out that unwelcome guests may bring the greatest gifts . . .
“Alternately dark and humorous,” The Canning Season is a winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature from the acclaimed author of the Newbery Honor book Everything on a Waffle (Chicago Tribune).
“Unruly, unpredictable and utterly compelling.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Readers are in for a wise and wacky ride.” —School Library Journal (starred review)
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Polly Horvath is the author of many books for young people, including Everything on a Waffle, The Pepins and Their Problems, and The Trolls. Her numerous awards include the Newbery Honor, the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, the Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature, the Mr. Christie Award, the international White Raven, and the Young Adult Canadian Book of the Year. Horvath grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She attended the Canadian College of Dance in Toronto and the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York City. She has taught ballet, waitressed, done temporary typing, and tended babies, but while doing these things she has always also written. Now that her children are in school, she spends the whole day writing, unless she sneaks out to buy groceries, lured away from her desk by the thought of fresh Cheez Whiz. She lives on Vancouver Island with her husband and two daughters.
