AUTHOR ANA MARIA SPAGNA remembers the exact day years ago when she got the idea for her first environmental young adult novel, which will be published next year. “I was crosscountry skiing in the backcountry near my home in Stehekin, Washington, watching the snow glitter at eye-level, when I passed a high drift,” she says. “I imagined being on a snowmobile heading even higher into the mountains to spend even more time, and then I wondered what it would be like to be a young girl doing that. And the story was born.”
The story, The Luckiest Scar on Earth, is about Charlotte, a young snowboarder transplanted to Washington from her Colorado home and expected to have a relationship with her estranged, eccentric father. Unexpectedly, she finds herself working alongside…