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Author:

Williams, Julie.

Title:

Escaping tornado season : a story in poems / Julie Williams.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Harper Tempest,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

262 p. ; 19 cm.

Subject:

Children's poetry, American.
Grandparent and child--Juvenile poetry.
Abandoned children--Juvenile poetry.
Separation (Psychology)--Poetry.
Separation (Psychology)--Juvenile poetry.
Maternal deprivation--Juvenile poetry.
Grief--Poetry.
American poetry.
Fathers--Death--Juvenile poetry.
Family life--Poetry.
Schools--Poetry.
Girls--Juvenile poetry.
Minnesota--Poetry.
Minnesota--Juvenile poetry.

Summary:

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.

Indexed by:

Kirkus 02/15/2004.
PW 03/22/2004.
VOYA 2004 no. 2.
SLJ Apr 2004.
Bklst 03/01/2004.

ISBN:

0060086394
9780060086398

Locations:

WPPB215 -- Everly Public Library (Everly) — J 811.6 WIL

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)