Through the three different stories and the four main characters, the reveal of each subplot heightens the anticipation for the next part of the story. In Echo, each interconnecting story is one of a three-part whole. I enjoyed reading each section and left each part with curiosity, wondering what the next section would have to offer. It had a very compelling writing style and structure. Jessica Lahey is a teacher, writer, and mother of two teens. It reinforces the bonds that hold all of us together as humans-across cultures, religion, time, and space. It reminds us of our collective rights and wrongs, and the power of music to transcend pain and injustice. And while the book is hefty-nearly 600 pages long-the wide margins and large font are inviting and comforting.Įcho is more than just a good read it’s an allegory about what it means to be human when we seem dead set on killing each other. Echo is ideal for middle-grade, tween, and younger teen readers. Echo would make for a lovely cross-curricular bridge between language arts and history, one way to make the distant historical events of World War II and the rise of the Nazi party in Germany relevant to a new generation of readers.
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