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02254aam a22002775i 4500 001 A514B5BCA48511EEB554F55F4FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231227010040 008 231220s2023 xx 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1039008712 020 $a 9781039008717 040 $a NjBwBT $b eng $c NjBwBT $e rda $d SILO 100 10 $a Arden, Jann 245 14 $a The Bittlemores $c Jann Arden. 264 1 $a Toronto : $b Random House Canada, $c 2023. 300 $a 375 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a "On mean Harp Bittlemore's blighted farm, hidden away in the Backhills, nothing has gone right for a very long time. Crops don't grow, the pigs and chickens stay skinny and the three aged dairy cows, Berle, Crilla and Dally, are so desperate they are plotting an escape. The one thing holding them back is the thought of abandoning young Willa, the single bright point in their life since her older sister, Margaret, ran away. But Willa Bittlemore, just turning 14, is planning her own rebellion. Something doesn't add up in the story she's been told about her missing sister, and she's beginning to question if her horrible parents are even her parents at all. Just as things are really coming to a head, a bright young police officer starts investigating a cold case involving a baby stolen from a little rural hospital 28 years earlier, and Willa and the cows find out exactly how far the Bittlemores will go to protect a festering secret. Written with Jann's trademark outrageous humour and full of her down-to-earth wisdom, The Bittlemores is a rural fairytale, a coming-of-age story and a prairie mystery all-in-one, saturated with her observations of the world she grew up in and her deep connection to the animals we exploit. This marvel of a first novel digs into how people come to be so cruel, but it also glories in the miracle of human kindness."-- 650 $a Farm Life $x Fiction 650 $a Families $x Fiction 650 $a Family Secrets $x Fiction 650 $a Teenage Girls $x Fiction 650 $a Cold Cases (Criminal Investigation) $x Fiction 650 $a Detective and mystery fiction 941 $a 1 952 $l EZPE755 $d 20231227010231.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A514B5BCA48511EEB554F55F4FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search