Wildwing—
A sweeping tale of love, time travel,
and the wisdom of following your heart.
When a fifteen-year-old girl is trapped in the past, will she find her way home, or will she finally find what she's always been searching for?
"That's how I come to see him before he sees me. He's leaning against a tree, like part of the forest himself in his green tunic, his brown leather boots. As I watch, he closes his eyes as if summoning some inner power, and he whistles again. But it's no falcon he's whistling down; there's no glove upon his hand. No, he's calling to me."
Reviews & News
"...Addy is an engagingly inventive heroine. Whitman's attention to historical detail and vivid descriptions bring the past alive to create an absorbing fictional world that will hook readers from the first page." Kirkus Reviews
"Whitman populates both of her worlds with vivid, believable characters. Akin in tone to Libba Bray's A Great and Terrible Beauty, this historical novel with a time-travel twist of sci-fi will find an avid readership." --School Library Journal
"[An] enjoyable historical coming-of-age story...The fantasy premise of escaping into a new identity ('If I could, I'd shed the girl I am like a snake slides out of a ragged, outgrown skin,' Addy thinks) should strongly appeal to teens, who will relate to Addy's frustration with the limits of her life." --Publisher's Weekly
"Time travel! And romance! . . . It's like the lady or the tiger, with harder choices: marry a lord she doesn't love; run away with the handsome falconer and endanger her new-found friends in the castle; or return to a future where she is a servant and alone. The choice Addy makes and the resolution to the story rings true. It's not just the choice, it's also that she has grown to realize that she does have choices. . . . Is it giving too much away to say I want a sequel?" A Chair, a Fireplace & a Tea Cozy
"I had been in a terrible book rut. I kept picking up ARCs of all these books that are supposed to be wonderful, books that are getting rave reviews, and then disliking them so much I had to put them down. I was getting extremely frustrated. I thought, I need to find a fulfilling book right now! I looked at my "READ NOW" stack of books again and found Wildwing, and I suddenly knew that this was going to be the one. And I was right. It was so perfect. I loved it so much, I wish I could start it all over again and not have to worry about finding another one that is as much fun. Thank you again and again for this book, and at just the right time." Kira, bookseller, A Children's Place Bookstore, Portland
"Whitman populates both of her worlds with vivid, believable characters. Akin in tone to Libba Bray's A Great and Terrible Beauty, this historical novel with a time-travel twist of sci-fi will find an avid readership." --School Library Journal
"[An] enjoyable historical coming-of-age story...The fantasy premise of escaping into a new identity ('If I could, I'd shed the girl I am like a snake slides out of a ragged, outgrown skin,' Addy thinks) should strongly appeal to teens, who will relate to Addy's frustration with the limits of her life." --Publisher's Weekly
"Time travel! And romance! . . . It's like the lady or the tiger, with harder choices: marry a lord she doesn't love; run away with the handsome falconer and endanger her new-found friends in the castle; or return to a future where she is a servant and alone. The choice Addy makes and the resolution to the story rings true. It's not just the choice, it's also that she has grown to realize that she does have choices. . . . Is it giving too much away to say I want a sequel?" A Chair, a Fireplace & a Tea Cozy
"I had been in a terrible book rut. I kept picking up ARCs of all these books that are supposed to be wonderful, books that are getting rave reviews, and then disliking them so much I had to put them down. I was getting extremely frustrated. I thought, I need to find a fulfilling book right now! I looked at my "READ NOW" stack of books again and found Wildwing, and I suddenly knew that this was going to be the one. And I was right. It was so perfect. I loved it so much, I wish I could start it all over again and not have to worry about finding another one that is as much fun. Thank you again and again for this book, and at just the right time." Kira, bookseller, A Children's Place Bookstore, Portland
