Title: Escaping tornado season
First published: 2004
Description: Poems describe how thirteen-year-old Allie, living with her grandparents in a small Minnesota town in the 1960s, struggles to cope with her father's recent death, being abandoned by her mother, and trying to fit in at school.
Subjects: Juvenile poetry, Poetry, Separation (Psychology), Death, Grandparent and child, Maternal deprivation, Fathers, Abandoned children, Girls, Family life, Grief, American poetry, Schools, Children's poetry, American, Children's poetry
Places: Minnesota
LC classification: PS3573.I44963 E83 2004