num_pages: 192
description: Ivy doesn't want to be a lawyer. Who cares?-well, her father, for starters, who expects his daughter to take up the Breedlove family profession with dedication and enthusiasm. What Ivy wants to be is a historian, a vocation that's getting quite a workout as she prepares a family history in honor of her beloved great-aunt Tib's eightieth birthday. As in Bauer's Rules of the Road, the central story is of a journey: Ivy hikes into the wilds of the Adirondacks to find her reclusive aunt Jo-and to find her own destiny as well.
language: English
title: Backwater
titlecomplete: Backwater
characters: Ivy Breedlove
genres: Family, Fiction, Contemporary, Coming Of Age, Teen, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Chick Lit, Middle Grade
ratings_count: 1580
publisher: Speak