Catalog Search Results
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Westover ha escrito una historia extraordinaria--su propia historia--una formidable epopeya, desgarradora e inspiradora, sobre la posibilidad de ver la vida a trav©♭s de otros ojos, y de cambiar"--
"Westover has written an extraordinary story--her own story--a formidable epic, heartbreaking and inspiring, about the possibility of seeing life through other eyes, and of changing"--
Una "memoria sobre una niña que, al no ir a la escuela, deja...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request