Title: The driest season
Description: As her Wisconsin community endures a long season of drought and feels the shockwaves of World War II, fifteen-year-old Cielle endures a more personal calamity: the unexpected death of her father. On a balmy summer afternoon, she finds him hanging in the barn--the start of a dark secret that threatens her family's livelihood. A war rages elsewhere, while in the deceptive calm of the American heartland, Cielle's family contends with a new reality and fights not to be undone.
Subjects: Family secrets, Life change events, Teenage girls, Fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, coming of age, Wisconsin, fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Fathers, Death, History, FICTION / Family Life, Family life, Suicide, Secrecy, Teenagers