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Mesmerized by a band of girls in the park she perceives as enjoying a life of free and careless abandon, 1960s teen Evie Boyd becomes obsessed with gaining acceptance into their circle, only to find herself drawn into a cult and seduced by its charismatic leader.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008, c1968
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xiv, 238 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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In this collection of essays, Didion explores subjects such as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up in California and the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, along with the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture.
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