Dark water
By: Laura McNeal
Edition: 1st Ember ed.
Publisher: Ember
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780375843303
Subjects: Illegal aliens; Wildfires; Families; Cousins; Juvenile fiction; Family life; Fiction; Homeless persons; Fires; Divorce
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.
Notes: National Book Award finalist, 2010.