![]() ![]() ![]() Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher. Little Brown Books for Young Readers, 2020. What hope are you finding during pandemic times?īook info: Agnes at the End of the World / Kelly McWilliams. Read the Prologue here on the author’s website to meet Agnes before… Told in alternating chapters by Agnes and Beth, this tale of apocalypse, pandemic, and faith was just released in June 2020. Red Creek’s menfolk and their multiple wives believe that the outside world is all sin, but this Arizona mountain settlement hides much wickedness, too. Standing outside the orphanage run by the world-famous Polish medic Janusz Korczak in the Praga district of Warsaw, it is still hard to get your head around the fact that hundreds of children were. The nurse’s son Danny is smart and kind – can she trust an outsider with their lives and her heart?Īgnes heard God’s voice as a child – will it lead them now to safety? It’s Beth who always wanted to leave – does she truly want to take her big sister’s place as a sixth wife? Suffering is God’s will says the Prophet, but Agnes refused to let Ben die like so many children here, sneaking away to get her little brother’s insulin from an outside nurse who warns of the new plague affecting people, birds, and animals.Īs the Prophet orders everyone into the mountain bunker to wait out the Apocalypse, the 16 year old knows it’s time to run, to escape the Arizona mountain settlement with her siblings, to risk the Outside world’s depravity and oncoming pandemic… ![]()
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