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McNeal, Laura.

Dark water / - 1st ed. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, �2010. - 287 pages ; 22 cm

Living in a cottage on her uncle's southern California avocado ranch since her parent's messy divorce, fifteen-year-old Pearl Dewitt meets and falls in love with an illegal migrant worker, and is trapped with him when wildfires approach his makeshift forest home.

National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist, 2010

ISBN: 0375849734 0375949739 9780375849732 9780375949739

Source: Randon House Children's Books

LCCN: 2009043249

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cousins--Juvenile fiction.
Divorce--Juvenile fiction.
Families--California--Juvenile fiction.
Homeless persons--Juvenile fiction.
Noncitizens--Juvenile fiction.
Wildfires--Juvenile fiction.
Illegal immigration--Juvenile fiction.
Cousins--Fiction.
Divorce--Fiction.
Family life--California--Fiction.
Homeless persons--Fiction.
Noncitizens--Fiction.
Wildfires--Fiction.
Illegal immigration--Fiction.
Undocumented Immigrants.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
California--Juvenile fiction.
California--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Young adult fiction.
Fiction.
Juvenile works.
Young adult works.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.M47879365 / Dar 2010

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]

National Library of Medicine Call No.: McNeal, L.