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A Place to Call Home

by Lauren Castillo

Belonging, friendship, and finding home

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Belonging, friendship, and finding home

As autumn arrives in Hedge Hollow, Hedgehog’s excitement at meeting another hedgehog is complicated by a new sense of distance from her longtime friends. Her journey upriver through an unfamiliar forest gives the story a way to explore where belonging comes from: shared identity, enduring friendship, and the family people choose. The woodland setting and seasonal change frame a question about home that is also a question about becoming more fully oneself.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Children ages 9–12 interested in stories about friendship and belonging
  • Readers drawn to woodland settings and animal characters
  • Families seeking a story that considers chosen family alongside birth family

Themes

Belonging and identityFriendshipChosen familyHome and family

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Book overview

From a Caldecott Honor-winning artist comes a cozy, warm-hearted story about the meaning of home and the power of friendship to help you become your truest self.

"Our Friend Hedgehog feels like a modern-day Winnie the Pooh." --Victoria Jamieson, Newbery Honor-winning author of Roller Girl

Families come in all shapes and sizes.
Sometimes they are joined by birth, and other times they are chosen...

Autumn leaves are falling in Hedge Hollow, and the change in season brings with it a spiny surprise... another hedgehog! Hedgehog is excited to meet one of her own kind. But it also makes her feel different--and distant--from her old friends. Where does Hedgehog belong, and who does she belong with? A journey upriver through an unfamiliar forest just might lead her home.

From the Caldecott Honor-winning author-illustrator of Our Friend Hedgehog: The Story of Us comes a tale of old friends and new, and the true meaning of home.
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