Howl

When eleven-year-old Jamaican-born and Brooklyn-raised Celia Johnson arrives at Camp Glynwood she already has plans to run away. She needs to get home to continue her search for her younger brother Kyel who has been missing for over three months. However on the night of her great eascape Celia makes an incredible discovery: she can talk to animals. Suddenly Celia is catapulted into the wildest adventure of her life. Slipping away from camp each night she befriends a wily cast of woodland animals. Along with a spunky new camp friend named Violet the motley crew joins Celia in her search for Kyel. But when the nightly expeditions push Celia beyond her physical and emotional limits...things dont go as planned. At all. Both poignant and hopeful a beautifully calibrated coming-of-age tale that deals thoughtfully with grief and recovery. -- Kirkus Review