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The Springsweet by Saundra Mitchell

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The Springsweet

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Saundra Mitchell

HarperCollins · Ebook · April 17, 2012

Reading lane: 19th-Century US YA

Heartbroken over the tragic death of her fiancé, seventeen-year-old Zora Stewart leaves Baltimore for the frontier town of West Glory, Oklahoma, to help her young widowed aunt keep her homestead going.

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Why This Clicks

Prairie Thirst

A frontier romance pairs hard-won survival with the ache of wanting a life beyond it.

Come here for

  • A young woman’s uncanny gift for finding water
  • Romance set against the demands of frontier survival

Expect

  • A sustained story of grief, work, and possibility
  • A parched landscape where water means survival

Book Details

Authors
Saundra Mitchell
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
April 17, 2012
Format
Ebook
Theme
19th-Century US YA · Western Romance
Reading lane
19th-Century US YA

Affinity

Publisher Categories

  • Coming of Age

  • YA Orphan & Foster Stories

  • YA Fantasy

  • YA Stories About Girls & Women

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  • 19th-Century US YA

  • Country Life for Teens

  • Magical Realism for Teens

  • YA Romance

About This Book

Heartbroken over the tragic death of her fiancé, seventeen-year-old Zora Stewart leaves Baltimore for the frontier town of West Glory, Oklahoma, to help her young widowed aunt keep her homestead going. There she discovers that she possesses the astonishing ability to sense water under the parched earth. When her aunt hires her out as a “springsweet” to advise other settlers where to dig their wells, Zora feels the burden of holding the key to something so essential to surviv...

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Heartbroken over the tragic death of her fiancé, seventeen-year-old Zora Stewart leaves Baltimore for the frontier town of West Glory, Oklahoma, to help her young widowed aunt keep her homestead going. There she discovers that she possesses the astonishing ability to sense water under the parched earth. When her aunt hires her out as a “springsweet” to advise other settlers where to dig their wells, Zora feels the burden of holding the key to something so essential to survival in this unforgiving land. Even more, she finds herself longing for love the way the prairie thirsts for water. Maybe, in the wildness of the territories, Zora can finally move beyond simply surviving and start living.

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