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Backwater

Joan Bauer

1999185 pagesabout 3–4 hours
1999
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  • 1999Putnam · 185 pages · ENGISBN 9780399231414
  • 2005Tandem Library · ENGISBN 9781417687435

While compiling a genealogy of her family of successful attorneys, sixteen-year-old history buff Ivy Breedlove treks into the mountain wilderness to interview a reclusive aunt with whom she identifies and who in turn helps her to truly know herself and her family.

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