Dark Water

By Laura McNeal

Book Overview

A National Book Award Finalist A Kirkus Reviews Best Books for Teens Fifteen-year-old Pearl DeWitt lives in Fallbrook, California, where it's sunny 340 days of the year, and where her uncle owns a grove of 900 avocado trees. Uncle Hoyt hires migrant workers regularly, but Pearl doesn't pay much attention to them...until Amiel. From the moment she sees him, Pearl is drawn to this boy who keeps to himself, fears being caught by la migra , and is mysteriously unable to talk. Then the wildfires strike.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375849734
• ISBN13: 9780375849732
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher