num_pages: 220
description: Anneli has lived in a small Mennonite colony in Bolivia her whole lifeuntil now. She and her father have packed their bags changed their names and fled and she doesnt know why. She only knows that her father is trying to locate her mother who disappeared when Anneli was five.Arriving in Toronto Anneli has to fend for herself in an alien environment isolated in a big city with no idea how to navigate the unspoken codes that come with being fourteen and in high school. Torn between two worlds she is troubled by the things she and her father have left behinda vanished town a long-ago crimebut determined to find her mother: the one person who might be able to tell her just what it is theyre running from.
language: English
title: Once, in a Town Called Moth
publisher: Tundra Books