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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
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Drawing from extensive journal entries, Laree Westover shares events in her life that show her tenacity in moving forward with faith--faith in herself, her husband, and her God... Family happiness seemed to be frustrated as her husband grappled with chronic health issues and serious accidents. That, along with her own health challenges and those of her children, drew her into studying alternative health care modalities in search of solutions.......
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.
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