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Escaping tornado season

by Julie Williams

Juvenile poetryPoetrySeparation (Psychology)DeathGrandparent and childMaternal deprivationFathersAbandoned children

Poems describe how thirteen-year-old Allie, living with her grandparents in a small Minnesota town in the 1960s, struggles to cope with her father's recent death, being abandoned by her mother, and trying to fit in at school.

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Book data: Open Library