num_pages: 224
description: After their mother's death, seventeen-year-old Will reluctantly follows his flighty older sister to the desert, where he is determined to make a new and stable life for himself-with or without his sister.
language: English
title: Across the Grain
titlecomplete: Across the Grain (Aerial Fiction)
genres: Young Adult
ratings_count: 39
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Young Adult
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)