Ellen Airgood
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Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Laurel Hill and her daughter Skye live on Lake Superior, where the local school has classes of just four children, and the nearest hospital is a helicopter ride away. They live frugally, eking out a living with Laurel's patchwork of jobs. When their landlord decides to evict them in favor of a more profitable summer rental without any warning, they are pushed farther to the margins. Suddenly the independence that has defined...
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When eleven-year-old Ivy Blake leaves the nice farm family where she has been living in upstate New York and moves back in with her mother she is finally forced to face up to the fact that her alcoholic, dysfunctional parent will never be able to provide her with a stable home--and if she wants to achieve her dreams she is going to have to take charge of her own future.