Notes From the Radical Reader:

• Noble Characters: Kate is not what you would call a farm-girl. She despises the country and its people, even to the point of calling her step-brother, Anders, a “country bumpkin”. She’s prideful, arrogant, and she knows it. As Kate battles with wondering how she fits into her new family, along with the doubts her siblings, mother, and new father have, this twelve-year-old girl learns what love truly means in a broken family.
• Captivating Plots: A thief. A stalker. And a mysterious figure who seems to vanish every time Anders searches for him. Despite Kate’s insistence, there’s no evidence that someone is watching them. But she knows he’s there. And she doesn’t know what he wants.
• Elaborate Worlds: Set in 1906 in the beautiful, wooded countryside of Wisconsin, Lois Walfrid Johnson has weaved a simple setting with an intricate story. In the years where marriage was necessary for survival, where the woods of Wisconsin were feared, and where speaking Swedish at school would get you punished, The Disappearing Stranger will enthrall and captivate you as the first book in the “Adventures of the Northwoods”.