It is small, short and sweet and would make a wonderful gift for someone going through the nebulous world of a young teen. This is a well-crafted book with a beautiful smooth indigo colored dust jacket. Young adults will certainly enjoy this book and can't help but benefit from its thoughtful message of self-actualization. The characters are sensitively drawn and the story weaves an evocative tapestry of emotional complexity, satisfyingly resolved. This is a fantasy allegory of finding one's true self and of love, committment,and true friendship. Alice Hoffman is the highly acclaimed author of over twenty novels for readers of all ages, including Illumination Night, Seventh Heaven, Practical Magic, Here on Earth, The Foretelling, Incantation, and, most recently, The Story Sisters and The Red Garden. How the three choose to deal with their problems makes for an interesting and moving magical tale of discovery. Trout and Eel are drawn intensely to water and have unusual and astonishing aquatic abilities, all of which make their loving adoptive parents very frightened and exposes mysterious questions about the boys' past. 13 year-old Martha Glimmer is convinced this is the worst time of her life.

Nobody goes swimming even on hot summer days. new tale of enchantment from best-selling master storyteller Alice Hoffman. Indigo by Alice Hoffman is set in a mythical town of Oak Grove, blocked off from water since the big flood several years before. Due to a flood disaster that hit Oak Grove before the kids were even born, pretty much everyone around is fearful of water and the local river is blocked off from town by a wall of stone. Her best friends are going through some changes of their own and are outcasts in the small community due to unusual physical characteristics. Indigo by Alice Hoffman 2,234 ratings, 3.52 average rating, 242 reviews Indigo Quotes Showing 1-4 of 4 At midnight the wind in the trees can sound like the ocean. Martha is a girl that hated people that pittied her after the death of her mother, she especially did not like Hildy Swoon there neighbor who started bring casseroles after the death of her mothers death. Show More time when Martha is mourning the death of her mother, growing into young adulthood, and coping with her father's grief-related emotional distance. This book Indigo is about a girl named Martha Glimmer and her two best friends Trevor (Trout) and Eli (Eel) Mcgill, who lived in Oak Grove.