Escaping Tornado Season

Escaping Tornado Season
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 9780060086398
ISBN-13 : 0060086394
Rating : 4/5 (394 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Escaping Tornado Season by : Julie Williams

Download or read book Escaping Tornado Season written by Julie Williams and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-03-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allie Benton's summer at her grandparents' house in Minnesota is the same as it's always been: northern lights and pine trees, family gossip and root beer floats. She's come here to escape Nebraska's tornado season every summer for as long as she can remember. The only difference is, this time no one's coming to take her back to Nebraska when fall rolls around. With her father dead, her mother run off to heaven knows where, and her twin brother, seven years buried, just a ghost in her memory, Allie settles in with her grandparents for a cold Minnesota winter. But it's hard to fit in at a new school when her family can't afford to buy her a pair of blue jeans. And, in an ethnically divided community, Allie isn't even allowed to choose the friends she wants-handsome Joey Redfern and Lidia, the beautiful Ojibwe girl who calls Allie my niijikwe, "my friend." With a strong poetic voice, Julie Williams creates snapshots of Allie piecing a new life together- longing for her mother, grieving for her father, remembering her brother, and struggling to do what's right in an imperfect world. As the people around her come and go, Allie starts to get a sense of who she is, and of what she can hold on to despite the changes in her world.


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