Details

Subject(s)

• African American children—Fiction [Browse]
• African American teenage girls—Fiction [Browse]
• Siblings—Fiction [Browse]
• Motherless families—Fiction [Browse]
• African American families—Mississippi—Fiction [Browse]
• Rural poor—Mississippi—Fiction [Browse]
• Hurricane Katrina, 2005—Fiction [Browse]
• Gulf Coast (Miss.)—Fiction [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Domestic fiction [Browse]

Summary note

Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.

Study program information

• Reading Counts High School 5.7 20.
• Accelerated Reader Grades 9-12 5.3 13 SD Quiz 152039 English fiction.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Awards

National Book Award, Fiction, 2011.

ISBN

• 9781608196265 ((pbk.))
• 1608196267
• 9781608195220
• 1608195228
• 9781408827000 ((pbk.))
• 140882700X ((pbk.))

LCCN

2010053025

OCLC

1193583074

International Article Number

9781608195220

RCP

H - S

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