The turtle catcher
By: Nicole Helget.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780618753123
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
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.