Baygirl

By Heather Smith

Book Overview

Growing up in a picturesque Newfoundland fishing village should be idyllic for sixteen-year-old Kit Ryan, but living with an alcoholic father makes Kit's day-to-day life unpredictable and almost intolerable.

When the 1992 cod moratorium forces her father out of a job, the tension between Kit and her father grows. Forced to leave their rural community, the family moves to the city, where they live with Uncle Iggy, a widower with problems of his own. Immediately pegged as a "baygirl," Kit struggles to fit in, but longstanding trust issues threaten to hold her back when a boy named Elliot expresses an interest in her.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1459802748
• ISBN13: 9781459802742
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher