Eventually readers learn more about how their interwoven stories connect.First, the book is not like the series. All the main characters have musical ability, and when they're playing a magical harmonica they feel better about themselves and inspire others with the beauty of their music. She also learns about the injustices suffered by Japanese families, such as the farm's owners, who are sent to live in internment camps. Then, in the 1940s, Ivy moves with her farmworker family to Southern California, but once there she learns she must attend the inferior school for Mexicans. They're adopted by a strange rich woman, but when they learn she might be sending them back, Mike must make plans for them to stay together. In Pennsylvania during the Great Depression, Mike and his younger brother are living in an unloving orphanage where they're hired out to work and must wear raggedy clothing. Friedrich, also a talented musician, fears he will have to be sterilized, and perhaps even euthanized, because of a birthmark on his face.
In Germany in the 1930s, Friedrich's father is arrested by the Nazis and sent to a labor camp after having a Jewish friend over to play music with him. In ECHO, author Pam Muñoz Ryan strings together three very different stories of young people facing injustices, all of which are tied together by a fantastic prophecy and a magical harmonica. They eventually learn "to hope for the best and that no matter how much sadness there is in life, there are equal amounts of maybe-things'll-get-better-someday-soon." But the protagonists speak up in their own way for what's right and continue to think of ways to help others who also are suffering. There's some violence, from fistfights to war injuries, and one soldier dies. They learn about other injustices, too (for example, the family that owns the farm Ivy lives on is sent to a Japanese internment camp).
The three main protagonists - Friedrich, Mike, and Ivy - all face injustice: Nazi soldiers call Friedrich "the ugly son of a Jew-lover" after taking his father to a labor camp Mike and Frank are at the mercy of a cruel and calculating orphanage director and later get thrown out of a store, suspected of being thieves Ivy must go to a school for Mexican students.
Readers also will learn that in some California school districts in the 1940s, kids with Mexican ancestry were sent to separate and inferior schools. It includes information about the beginning of the Holocaust, the Great Depression, and what life was like in America after Pearl Harbor, including how Japanese people were sent to internment camps. Parents need to know that Pam Muñoz Ryan's 2016 Newbery Honor book Echo is a historical novel with a fantasy element. Very brief reference to characters smoking.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide.
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