Title: The turtle catcher /
Authors: Helget, Nicole Lea, 1976-
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
Year: 2009
Subjects: German Americans Minnesota Fiction.; Young women Fiction; Abnormalities, Human Fiction.; Brothers and sisters Fiction; Men with mental disabilities Fiction.; Murder Fiction; Farm life Minnesota Fiction.
Abstract: In a rural Minnesota town during World War I, Liesel, the only girl in the Richter family, hides a secret that precludes all hope of living a normal life and turns to her closest friend, Lester, a gentle, "slow" boy who spends his days trapping turtles.