The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind, Meg Medina
The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind, Meg Medina
List: $14.99 | Sale: $10.50
Club: $7.49

The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind

Author: Meg Medina

Narrator: Cristina Panfilio

Unabridged: 4 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/13/2012


Synopsis

Though everyone in the village of Tres Montes thinks Sonia Ocampo is blessed, she knows she is nothing but a fraud. She’s spent her life listening to the hopes and wishes of her neighbors and family, but when a classmate dies despite her prayers, she is forced to realize that she has no special powers—no way to prevent bad things from happening.Rather than disenchant her friends and embarrass her family, she leaves home to work in the house of a wealthy woman in the city. There she is finally what she wants to be—just a girl like any other. But when misfortune falls upon her family, she must confront the truth, no matter how difficult.With a hint of magical realism and romance, Meg Medina weaves a poignant tale about a girl who dares to face life’s harsh truths and find power within herself.

About Meg Medina

Meg Medina is the author of The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind and the picture book Tia Isa Wants a Car, illustrated by Claudio Muñoz, which won the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. The daughter of Cuban immigrants, she grew up in Queens, Mew York, and now lives in Richmond, Virginia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Chrissie on August 08, 2016

The writing is wonderful and the setting is very rich. The characters are very likable, but somehow, I was looking for something a bit more. A part of me thinks that it needs more magical realism --- I came into this book expecting that, especially after the prologue. But another part of me thinks t......more

Goodreads review by Nic on March 12, 2012

I enjoyed the characters and dialogue very much, as well as the vivid and unusual (and interestingly nameless, except for Tres Montes) setting. The pacing strikes me as a little odd - as an audiobook (read by Cristina Panfilio), it's five CDs long, and it's not until the second CD that Sonia actuall......more