Melting Stones

Melting Stones
Tamora Pierce
Scolastic Press, 2008
Pages: 312
Reading Level: 9-12
Genre: Fantasy

The main character in this book is a twelve-year-old girl named Evvy. She has magic that comes from stones. While at her school, Winding Circle, she gets in a fight and is sent off with her teacher, Rosethorn, to figure out why some plants on an island are dying. While there, Evvy discoveres that the island is sitting on a volcano, and that the fumes from it are killing the plants. She becomes her magic self, and goes down into the rocks and discovers that volcanoes are made up of lots of volcano spirits. Two of these spirits want very bady to get out. Evvy tries and barely succeeds to get them out to the ocean before exploding and destroying the island. In the end she ends up having to stay on the island until everyone returns to help rebuild the damage the tremor did.

I would recommend this book to pre-teen girls between 10 and 14. It teaches girl power and that they can do anything they set their minds to, even if other people say they can't.

Thin book condones stubborn behavior. It could possible cause children to think being stubborn to the point of ridiculiousness as okay.

I liked this book. It wasn't my favorite of Tamora Pierce's books, but it was okay.

My Rating: ***