Title: The turtle catcher
Description: In a rural Minnesota town during World War I, Liesel, the only girl in the Richter family, hides a secret that precludes all hope of living a normal life and turns to her closest friend, Lester, a gentle, "slow" boy who spends his days trapping turtles.
Subjects: Farm life, Human Abnormalities, Brothers and sisters, Fiction, German Americans, Young women, Men with mental disabilities, Murder, Fiction, family life, general, Young women, fiction, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Crime, fiction, Minnesota, fiction, Fiction, psychological
Places: Minnesota