Rebelling when she is sent to stay at her Grandmother's Maine island home after the birth of her brother, twelve-year-old Elizabeth befriends the strange son of her only neighbors and comes to unexpectedly respect her Grandmother. Reprint. K. SLJ.

This was a very interesting book. When I first loooked at the title I had very little interest in it, but yuo know what they say, "You can never judge a book by its cover." When I opened the book up to read the summary I was very surprised. It was very different than I thought it would be. An eleven-year-old girl named Elizabeth is sent to Maine to visit her grandmother for the whole month of August. She is not very excited about it and doesn't really want to go. When she gets there it is like a whole different world to her. It looks very different to her. This is only the second or third time Elizabeth has met her Grandmother in person. She feels kind of awkward and does not know what they will talk about or what Gran will question her about. Gran starts asking Elizabeth questions and she does not know what kind of answer Gran wants so she answers with a yes or no. Gran knows she feels awkward and tells her it's okay. Elizabeth learns many things about Gran and her family. Gran loves to tell stories. Her favorite things to do are to draw and paint. Elizabeth meets many new people. She gets close with Gran's neighbors. They are very different. They are loud and treat their children in a not so good way. Aaron, one of the sons really starts to like Elizabeth. She takes him down to the cemetary and to the dock often. One night Aaron gets lost. he is nowhere to be found. Later that day Elizabeth finds out something she never knew about Gran. I will let you read the rest to find out what happens next. This was a pretty good book but to tell you the truth, it didn't start getting good until about the middle. I would recommend this book to people in between fourth and eighth grade.

If you are looking for a book that you don't want to put down than Western Wind is the book for you. When I read Western Wind I couldn't put it down. If you do like books that you cant put down than trust me you want to read this book. If you don't like those kind of books than you shouldn't read this book. This book is about a girl that goes and sees her Grandma Gran. She feels like she is sent away because she doesn't wasnt to go but her parents make her. She has a new baby brother and thats why she feels that she has been sent away. Her parents make her go because her grandma has heart cancer and she wants to see Elizabith( her grandaughter). Elizabith meets a boy named Aaron and has a lot of fun with him. Her grandma lives on Pring Island and has no bathroom or electricty. Aaron gets lost and eveyone has to go on a search for him. Gran's heart cancer is getting worse. When Gran gets home she can't breathe. She asks Elizabith to get her neighbor to call the coast gaurd. Gran goes to the hospital. Does she die or not?

If you'd ever lingered among the crags and eddies off the coast of Maine, there is much that is endearing and enduring in this brief novel, written for near-teens, but enjoyable for all ages. A young girl spends the summer with her grandmother, an artist on an island just off the Maine coast. At first, perplexed and hurt by her parents' decision to have her stay with the often taciturn, but always loving and engaging gran, young Elizabeth learns through a young neighbor boy the importance of seizing the day and not missing a moment of life, a lesson that becomes all the more poignant by the novel's melancholy, but hopeful ending. Paula Fox is the author of the Newbery-winning SLAVE DANCER and always writes with a clarity of spirit and sparklingly unforgettable characters. Further evidence that quick reads do not have to be toss-away pap.

Western Wind is a really good book!! Elizabeth acts just like a girl would in her situation with her grandmother. She is a girl who was sent to her grandma's house for awhile and feels like her parents sent her away so they could be alone with their new son. I really recommend you read this book. It is excellent!!!!!!