Backwater
By: Joan Bauer.
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Genealogy -- Fiction; Aunts -- Fiction; Lawyers -- Fiction; Birds -- Fiction; Survival -- Fiction; Hermits -- Fiction; Family life -- Fiction; Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Description: While compiling a genealogy of her family of successful attorneys, sixteen-year-old history buff Ivy Breedlove treks into the mountain wilderness to interview a reclusive aunt with whom she identifies and who in turn helps her to truly know herself and her family.