Into the Wind, William Loizeaux
Into the Wind, William Loizeaux
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Into the Wind

Author: William Loizeaux

Narrator: Andrew Hoops

Unabridged: 3 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/31/2025

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

An award-winning character-driven story about the unlikely friendship between a 10-year-old boy and an elderly woman. The old woman badgers the boy into taking her sailing, but when the weather turns bad, it becomes a wild sail. It becomes the last trip before she goes into the hospital where she dies: but not before the two of them share memories of their last sail together. Hazel helps build the boy’s confidence during a tough time in his home life. Both moving and joyful, Into the Wind is a poignant story about loss and love in a boy’s life, and the surprising and sustaining bonds that can grow between the old and young.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sheila on July 02, 2023

Thank You, One Elm Books, for a copy of this book. Rusty is a soon to be 6th grader, who is going through a tough time, summer school, and his mom not being around, Rusty meets an eccentric senior named Hazel who ends up changing his life. I really liked this book, a really good read.......more

Goodreads review by Susan on December 12, 2021

INTO THE WIND is a sweet, wholesome story about a boy's unexpected friendship with a spirited old lady. It teaches some good lessons about learning from the elderly, working hard to achieve a goal, and living life to the fullest. Loizeaux's prose is assured and his colorful descriptions of the islan......more

Goodreads review by Becky on October 08, 2020

First sentence: “Hey, kid!” a gravelly voice called from behind me. Startled, I turned from bailing the afternoon’s rain out of my sailboat and saw this creepy old lady about fifteen feet away on the dock, not far from where I’d left my bike. Premise/plot: Rusty, the hero of this middle grade coming......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on March 18, 2021

I am a sucker for American children’s fiction having lived there as a child myself for 3 years. I still have my copy of a Horse Named Summer by Karen Bendick and I loved All -of-a-Family Uptown by Sydney Taylor. And Into the Wind by William Loizeaux (who was writer-in-residence at university in Bosto......more

Goodreads review by Book on March 30, 2022

Into the Wind by William Loizeaux is a children’s story about how an unlikely friendship develops between a young boy and an older woman in a wheelchair. It takes place during a difficult summer for both on the island where they live. After Rusty’s mother is admitted to an inpatient treatment facili......more