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Albert Whitman & Company
April 2016
On Sale: April 1, 2016
240 pages
ISBN: 0807515809
EAN: 9780807515808
Kindle: B01BUPOSJW
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Young Adult
With her mother facing prison time for a violent political protest, seventeen-year-old Liberty Briscoe has no choice but to leave her Washington, D.C., apartment and take a bus to Ebbottsville, Kentucky, to live with her granny. There, she can at least finish high school and put some distance between herself and her motherβor her former mother, as she calls her.
But Ebbottsville isnβt the same as Liberty remembers, and itβs not just because the top of Tannerβs Peak has been blown away to mine for coal. Half the county is out of work, an awful lot of people in town seem to be sick, and the tap water is bright orangeβthe same water that officials claim is safe. And when Grannyβs lingering cold turns out to be something much worse, Liberty wonders if somebody at the mine is hiding the truth about the water. She starts to investigate and is soon plunged into a world of secrets, lies, threats, and danger.
Her searches for answers and justice lead to even tougher questionsβshould she turn to violence and end up like her mother? Give up her quest for the sake of keeping the peace? Or keep fighting until the mine is shut down for good?
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