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Hi this is Betsy from Otto’s. We have been known as a bookstore that can give our customers suggestions for good reads. But after reading some new books that didn’t resonate with me, I asked a ever-reading customer which book she had read that she fully enjoyed and she recommended Echo, a young adult novel about three stressful periods in which a harmonica played a major role. Pre-war Germany when the Nazi Party was tightening its iron grip; a Pennsylvania orphanage in the mid-thirties; and a California orchard where workers of Mexican heritage were struggling to find an equal footing with the owners—all three periods were filled with blind intolerance. The three part plot is tense and absorbing—not resolved until the final chapter brings all the characters together at a New York’s Carnegie Hall. If your young person has too much time on his or her hands this summer, give them Echo—you’ll find it at Otto’s a booklover’s paradise in the heart of downtown Williamsport. Open Monday through Friday 9 to 8 PM, Saturday 9 to 6 PM and Sunday 1 to 4.
