Springsweet

by Saundra Mitchell

Book Overview

When seventeen-year-old Zora Stewart arrives in the frontier town of West Glory, Oklahoma, to help her widowed aunt, she discovers that she possesses the astonishing ability to sense water under the parched earth. When her aunt hires her out as a "springsweet" to advise settlers where to dig their wells, Zora feels the burden of holding the key to something so essential to survival in this unforgiving land. Even more, she finds herself longing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0544003276
• ISBN13: 9780544003279
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary