Water Steps

Name: Water Steps
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: A. LaFaye
ISBN: 9781936223251

Author: A. LaFaye

Narrator: A. LaFaye

Unabridged: 3 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Full Cast Audio

Published: 01/01/2010

Categories: Children's Fiction, Science & Nature Stories

Synopsis

Kyna has a deep-seated (and well-earned) fear of the water. So when her adoptive parents announce that they have rented a summer house on Lake Champlain, she begs to be left behind for the summer. Alas, this is not possible. Yet even at the lake Kyna does her best to avoid the water, exploring instead the forests and hillsides, documenting them with her camera. But when her new friend, Tylo, draws her into his quest for strange water creatures, Kyna finds herself pulled into unexpected discoveries – not only about the lake, but about her own strange heritage. A novel that pulses with a passion for nature and the natural world, Water Steps is rich with love and loss, longing and renewal, a bit of mystery and a touch of fantasy. With an extraordinary gift for dialect, author A. LaFaye brings its rhythms to vivid life in this haunting reading.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer on November 14, 2012

Reviewed by Sarah Bean the Green Bean Teen Queen for TeensReadToo.com Kyna hates water. Ever since a boating accident left her orphaned, her fear of water has taken over. She is afraid of walking on the beach. There's no way she could swim. Even the idea of taking a bath is enough to send Kyna into a......more

Goodreads review by Lana on March 21, 2019

water steps was ok but it just really depressing until the end......more

Goodreads review by Kari on June 02, 2011

Kyna’s spirit is unflappable, the kind of kid that bounces through life, seeing the good everywhere she looks. Her one weakness is a deathly fear of water after a near drowning when she was three years old, in a boating accident that took the lives of her entire family. A summer at a cabin forces he......more

Goodreads review by Jacqueline on August 01, 2012

P. 161 "Shrink the fear down to the right size. Don't let it disappear and lead you into foolishness, but don't let it get so big it drowns you." Wonderful quote about handling one's fears.......more

Goodreads review by Jodee on February 14, 2012

I really liked this book. The writing was beautiful, the characters very likeable. The author wrote in such as way that you could feel the way the character was feeling.......more