Dark water
By: Laura McNeal.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780375849732; 9780375949739
Subjects: Wildfires -- Fiction; Illegal aliens -- Fiction; Homeless persons -- Fiction; Divorce -- Fiction; Cousins -- Fiction; Family life -- California -- Fiction; California -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Living in a cottage on her uncle's southern California avocado ranch since her parent's messy divorce, fifteen-year-old Pearl Dewitt meets and falls in love with an illegal migrant worker, and is trapped with him when wildfires approach his makeshift forest home.