The Ice House
The Ice House
A heartwarming journey of friendship and family.
Start meaningful conversations with your child.
The Ice House is the perfect book to help start important conversations about social emotional learning and climate change with your child. Monica Sherwood’s lightly magical debut novel deftly mixes tween friendship difficulties and familial frustrations within a reality that mirrors pandemic schooling, engagingly exploring the loneliness of an event that requires insular experiences—a feeling with which many readers will relate.
“Colby Sharp Loves
THE ICE HOUSE
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“Sherwood shows with gentleness and realism how happiness, creativity, and humor exist alongside tragedy and upheaval.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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Colby Sharp, Literacy Advocate + 5th Grade Teacher
“You’re going to love it. Your readers are going to love it. It’s so fascinating. It’s so timely. But I think it’s a great book that kids are going to read for a really really long time. ”
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"Readers will immediately recognize the elements of pandemic life Sherwood mines for her debut novel, which successfully captures the turmoil of living far apart and unbearably close."
- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Experience the power of resilience.
Join Monica Sherwood’s middle grade adventure as twelve year olds Louisa and Luke navigates the loneliness of remote learning and the frustration of the unknown. Perfect for readers ages 8-12 who will relate to this compelling story.
“A beautifully written novel about a world of mostly physical isolation and virtual connection that seems all too familiar [and that] readers will strongly relate to.”
— Dusty Bowling,
Author of Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
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