Escaping Tornado Season: A Story in Poems
Publisher
Harper
Publication Year
2004
ISBN
9780060086398
Pages
272 pages
Genre
historical
Format
novel in verse
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Poems describe how thirteen-year-old Allie, living with her grandparents in a small Minnesota town in the 1960s, struggles to cope with her father's recent death, being abandoned by her mother, and trying to fit in at school.
Grade Level
9-12
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Racial Diversity; Family member death; Legal guardianship; Kinship care; Interracial; Race discrimination; death of a father; death of a brother; grandparents raising grandchild; interracial friendship; racism; prejudice
Main Character
female teenager
Race/Ethnicities
Native American / White
Family Formation
grandmother and grandfather
Awards
Southern California Booksellers Association Book Award, 2004, Nominee, Children's Book
Keywords
grief; grandparents; death; Nebraska; Minnesota; twins; 1960s; abandonment; writing
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Williams, Julie, "Escaping Tornado Season: A Story in Poems" (2004). Diverse Families. 684.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/684