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MAY B., by Caroline Starr Rose

October 26th, 2010 by Caroline Starr Rose · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Fall 2011
  • Publisher: Random House
  • Release Date: September 13, 2011
  • ISBN (hardcover): TBD
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
When a failed wheat crop nearly bankrupts the Betterly family, Pa pulls twelve-year-old May from school and hires her out to a couple new to the Kansas frontier. Against her wishes, May moves in with the Oblingers, which only strains their new, rocky marriage more. When the Oblingers abruptly leave, May is left with little food, little fuel, and no way to contact her family. Now she must face winter alone. Reminiscent of Karen Hesse’s OUT OF THE DUST, Rose’s debut novel-in-verse is about the refusal to accept… Continue reading

Categories: 2011 Fall · Events · Historical Fiction · Learning Disabilities · Local · Middle Grade · National · New Mexico · Poetry · Random House · Rated PG · Rose, Caroline Starr · Survival