Displaying 1 of 1 2022 Format: Book Author: Barnhill, Kelly Regan, author. Title: The Ogress and the orphans / Kelly Barnhill. Edition: First edition. Publisher, Date: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, 2022. Description: 392 pages : map ; 22 cm. Summary: When a child goes missing from the Orphan House in the town of Stone-in-the-Glen, the mayor suggests the kindly Ogress is responsible, but the orphans do not believe that and try to make their deluded neighbors see the real villain among them. Target Audience Note: Ages ages 10 and up Algonquin Young Readers. Grades 4-6 Algonquin Young Readers. Subjects: Fantasy -- Juvenile fiction. Orphans -- Juvenile fiction. Missing children -- Juvenile fiction. Blame -- Juvenile fiction. Generosity -- Juvenile fiction. Ghouls and ogres -- Juvenile fiction. Notes: Maps on endpapers. LCCN: 2021044383 ISBN: 9781643750743 (hardcover) 1643750747 (hardcover) 9781643752761 paperback 1643752766 paperback (ebook) OCLC: 1273423779 System Availability: 6 # System items in: 6 # Local items: 1 # Local items in: 1 Current Holds: 0 Place Request Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Large Cover Image Trade Reviews Publishers Weekly ReviewBefore fires claimed its spaces of books and learning, Stone-in-the-Glen was a "lovely town... famous for its trees," its abundance, its close-knit community, and its ample library (where even the librarians' "shushes were lovely"). Following the fires, however, searing light, damaging floods, and anger and rumor become commonplace, and the cued-white human residents retreat behind locked doors and fences, goaded on by a self-interested, isolationist mayor who sows a campaign of suspicion and fear. At the impoverished but love-filled Orphan House, 15 children reside alongside two elderly sweethearts and a fantastical reading room, doing their best to stretch their meager resources. When a "careful and considerate" ogress takes up residence at the town's far edge, cultivating a garden and observing the town's need, she begins delivering nourishing baked goods and boxes of vegetables to the residents overnight. Employing a benevolent, omniscient narrator ("Listen," the voice urges) and a slowly unfurling, deliberately paced telling, Newbery Medalist Barnhill incorporates ancient stories, crow linguistics, and a history of dragonkind into an ambitious, fantastical sociopolitical allegory that asks keen questions about the nature of time, the import of community care, and what makes a neighbor. Ages 10--up. Agent: Steven Malk, Writers House. (Mar.) Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1