num_pages: 279
description: In a West Virginia girls' camp in July 1963, a group of children experience an unexpected rite of passage. Shelter is an astonishing portrayal of a loss of innocence as witnessed by a drifter named Parson; two young sisters, Lenny and Alma; and Buddy, the wide-eyed boy so at home in the forest. Buddy, Lenny and Alma are forever transformed by violence, by family secrets, by surprising turns of love. In a leafy wilderness undiminished by societal rules and dilemmas, Lenny and Alma confront a terrible evil and find in themselves a knowledge never give to them by the adult world.
language: English
title: Shelter
titlecomplete: Shelter
genres: Fiction, Novels
ratings_count: 280
publisher: Houghton Mifflin