Elevation 6040 Author:Ernest J. Finney Winner, 2014 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize — California Book Awards silver medal for fiction, 2016It?s 1981, and thirteen-year-old Roscoe McAdams and his brother and sister have always lived with their parents, Sebastian and Moonstar, in an isolated cabin high on a ridge in California?s northern Sierra, though often in spring when Moonstar can?t st... more »and the snow anymore she takes them for a stay down below. They?ve mostly been home-schooled.
Then, through a fluke that April, Moonstar becomes a substitute teacher in a small town and enrolls the kids in school there. Roscoe assumes that when summer comes, they?ll go back to the ridge and Sebastian: that?s how it?s always been. But they don?t, and then everything Roscoe thinks he knows for sure begins to fall apart.« less