Queen of the godforsaken
Subtitle: a novel
By: Mix Hart
Publisher: Thistledown Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781771870634
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Families; Teenage girls; Dysfunctional families; Survival; Fiction; Sisters; Juvenile fiction; Winter
Description: Lydia Buckingham is an ice queen. She wasn't always that way, but after her parents uprooted the family to move to an isolated and rundown farmhouse in the middle of nowhere, she has been forced to adapt this personality in order to survive in rural Saskatchewan. Despite her interest in the local history at Batoche, Lydia finds herself unable to relate to her peers at school or to her surroundings. To top it all off her parents are constantly fighting, drinking, and abandoning Lydia and her younger sister Victoria for days on end. Soon the sisters have had enough, and they decide to set out alone into the brutal Saskatchewan winter.
Notes: Ages 13-17.