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Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Raised by parents so intentionally isolated that they speak their own hybrid dialect, abused youth Marjorie witnesses her parents' submission to a sadistic cult leader before she is rescued by another abuse survivor who teaches her stoneworking skills.
Author
Language
English
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Description
A few months before his eighteenth birthday, Hector runs away to the remote Isle Royale on Lake Superior. In the spring, when he ll be legally free from his brutal uncle, he can go back to the mainland. Until then, he ll have to weather the vicious autumn storms and find a way to survive the hostile, uninhabited island.
The lake is Anda, and she is the November storms that terrify sailors and sink ships. With their deaths, Anda keeps her little island...