num_pages: 32
description: After her mother leaves, fifteen-year-old Irena runs away from home and hitchhikes to Key West where she tries to make a better life for herself, in a story the uncovers just what it really means to be a family.
language: English
title: Under the Banyan Tree
titlecomplete: Under the Banyan Tree
genres: Fiction, Teen
ratings_count: 77
publisher: Holiday House