The darkness under the water
By: Beth Kanell.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780763637194
Subjects: Coming of age -- Fiction; Family life -- Vermont -- Fiction; Eugenics -- Fiction; Abenaki Indians -- Fiction; Indians of North America -- Vermont -- Fiction; Vermont -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1930, sixteen-year-old Molly lives under the shadow of a governor who wants to sterilize people "unfit to be true Vermonters," such as her Abenaki family, while the loss of her family home, her mother's pregnancy, her first love, and other events transform her life.