upper peninsula (mich.)

"After her girls' ice hockey team is cut for budget reasons, Michigan tries out for the boys' team, and earns a place on the starting lineup. But when she bests her teammates with her skills and her refusal to back down, hazing crosses the line into assault"--Provided by publisher.

Helena is finally living the normal life that she craved until her father escapes from a nearby prison and Helena's secret comes out into the open, that she is the daughter of a woman that her father abducted as a child years ago. Now, Helena goes on the hunt to find her father, known as the Marsh King, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She is the only one that has the skills to catch the notorious child abductor and suvivalist, because she was the only one trained by him.

When her father is killed in an accident, twelve-year-old Wren is grief stricken, but what upsets her even more is that her mother seems to be filled with anger, rather than sadness. As they move from place to place, Wren is forced to cope with her mother's strange behavior, her own grief, and all the problems that come with being the new girl in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where they finally end up.

After the death of her father, twelve-year-old Wren finds her life thrown into upheaval. And when her mother decides to pack up the car and forces Wren to leave the only home she's ever known, the family grows even more fractured. As she and her mother struggle to build a new life, Wren must tackle issues with the environment, peer pressure, and bullying. More than that, she must cope with the difficulty of forgiving those who don't deserve it as she discovers what it means to be a family and the secrets and lies that can tear one apart.