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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 mother—or her former mother, as she
calls her.
But Ebbottsville isn’t the same as
Liberty remembers, and it’s not just because the top of
Tanner’s 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 orange—the same
water that officials claim is safe. And when Granny’s
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
questions—should 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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