Dark Water
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Year
7-19-1900
ISBN
9780375849732
Pages
287 pages
Genre
realism
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Living in a cottage on her uncle's southern California avocado ranch since her parent's messy divorce, fifteen-year-old Pearl Dewitt meets and falls in love with an illegal migrant worker, and is trapped with him when wildfires approach his makeshift forest home.
Grade Level
6-8; 9-12
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Divorce; Single parent; single mother; divoreced parents; custody
Main Character
girl
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
divorced parents
Awards
Best Children's Books of the Year, 2011
Choices, 2011
Kirkus Best Young Adult Books, 2010
Got Text Complexity? Selected Literature for Common Core Standards in English Language Arts (Grades 6-12, 2013
Made for Each Other: Exploring Topics through Fiction and NonFiction in Grades 6 - 12, 2013
Flume: NH Teen Reader's Choice Award, 2012
Nominee
Read On Wisconsin, 2011-2012
Nominee
Delaware Diamonds, 2012, Winner
National Book Award, 2010, Finalist, Young People's Literature
San Diego Book Award, 2011, 1st Place, Best Novel
Keywords
wildfires; illegal aliens; immigrants; homeless persons; cousins; families; California
Diversity Impact
indirect
STARS Citation
McNeal, Laura, "Dark Water" (1900). Diverse Families. 847.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/847