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Dark Water

Laura McNeal

A National Book Award FinalistA Kirkus Reviews Best Books for TeensFifteen-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.

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Genre:

Environment
Fiction

Age Level:

12 and up

Dark Water review by CCowa

CCowa

A teenage girl named Pearl Dewitt and her mother move in
with her mother's brother's on his avocado ranch. Her uncle,
Hoyt, employs migrant workers to help pick the avocado
trees. Her relationship with her best friend is being torn
apart when her best friend becomes some guy's girlfriend,
and her relationship with her mother is the usual but is
under stress when her father exits her life. One day, her
uncle hires a young worker named Amiel and she becomes
intrigued with him. They become friends because they both