Title: Wild swans
Description: Some say the Milbourn women are crazy. Others say they're cursed. But without a doubt, they are extraordinary. In Ivy's family, generations of women lead dazzling lives  and die young. Ivy's mom abandoned her as a child, so Ivy sees it as a responsibility to break the cycle.
Subjects: Sisters, Mothers and daughters, Grandfathers, High school students, Fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Young women, fiction
Places: Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)