Two Harbors

Those who live in the isolated port town of Two Harbors, Minnesota, still remember the strange downfall of Lila Maywood--a striking beauty who abandoned her family for Hollywood with dreams of becoming a movie star. Lila's disappearance has defined the life of her daughter, Casey, left with only an autographed, heart-shaped headshot of her mother. When a big-city stranger shows up in town, Casey reluctantly falls for him, only to have him desert her, too. This new abandonment brings Casey face-to-face with the legacy of her mother's past, and the possibility that her own future could follow the same course. Against her father's counsel, Casey journeys from Two Harbors to Hollywood, where she discovers a world of secret lives and shifting roles that holds revealing truths about those who left her behind.

Cinematic and suspenseful, this is the electrifying story of a daughter learning the one act her mother never mastered: letting go.


Author: Kate Benson
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: 10/03/2005
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.40w x 0.86d
ISBN: 9780156031240

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.6
Point Value: 12
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 108978 / Two Harbors


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2005 pg. 698
Publishers Weekly 08/08/2005 pg. 211
Ingram Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 92
Booklist 09/01/2005 pg. 57
Library Journal 12/01/2005 pg. 109
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2006 pg. 241 - Recommended - Better Than Most

About the Author
Benson, Kate: - KATE BENSON's fiction has appeared in the Hawaii Review, the Allegheny Review, and USA Weekend and has been honored by Seventeen magazine and the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars. She lives in Boston. Two Harbors is her first novel.