Into the Wind, William Loizeaux
Into the Wind, William Loizeaux
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Into the Wind

Author: William Loizeaux

Narrator: Andrew Hoops

Unabridged: 3 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/27/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

It’s shaping up to be a rotten summer for 10-year-old Rusty, a sailing buff who lives on an island off the New England coast. He’s just flunked math and has to go to summer school. His older sister is bossier than ever. Worst of all, his mom is far away on the mainland—undergoing treatment for her sudden, confusing, and exhausting “sadness”—while his dad struggles to keep the household together. Rusty’s only refuge is in caring for and teaching himself to sail a small, beloved sailboat. While working on his boat at the village dock one evening, Rusty meets Hazel, a feisty old lady in a wheelchair. Hazel, a local artist from an old sailing family, asks—no, demands—that Rusty take her sailing. He refuses. She argues. And an unlikely friendship begins. Hazel hires Rusty to help her with household tasks on summer afternoons. Between cleaning, painting, and cutting weeds, Rusty bonds with Hazel over shared lunches, watermelon seed spitting, and their mutual love of sailing. When Rusty does eventually take Hazel sailing, they come to better know and feel what connects them, even as her life nears its end and his is just beginning.  Into the Wind is a poignant story about loss and love in a boy’s life, and the surprising and sustaining bonds that can grow between the old and young.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sheila on July 02, 2023

Thank You, One Elm Books, for a copy of this book. Rusty is a soon to be 6th grader, who is going through a tough time, summer school, and his mom not being around, Rusty meets an eccentric senior named Hazel who ends up changing his life. I really liked this book, a really good read.......more

Goodreads review by Susan on December 12, 2021

INTO THE WIND is a sweet, wholesome story about a boy's unexpected friendship with a spirited old lady. It teaches some good lessons about learning from the elderly, working hard to achieve a goal, and living life to the fullest. Loizeaux's prose is assured and his colorful descriptions of the islan......more

Goodreads review by Becky on October 08, 2020

First sentence: “Hey, kid!” a gravelly voice called from behind me. Startled, I turned from bailing the afternoon’s rain out of my sailboat and saw this creepy old lady about fifteen feet away on the dock, not far from where I’d left my bike. Premise/plot: Rusty, the hero of this middle grade coming......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on March 18, 2021

I am a sucker for American children’s fiction having lived there as a child myself for 3 years. I still have my copy of a Horse Named Summer by Karen Bendick and I loved All -of-a-Family Uptown by Sydney Taylor. And Into the Wind by William Loizeaux (who was writer-in-residence at university in Bosto......more

Goodreads review by Book on March 30, 2022

Into the Wind by William Loizeaux is a children’s story about how an unlikely friendship develops between a young boy and an older woman in a wheelchair. It takes place during a difficult summer for both on the island where they live. After Rusty’s mother is admitted to an inpatient treatment facili......more

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