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McGinnis, Mindy

In a Handful of Dust

376 pp. | HarperCollins/Tegen | October, 2014 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-219853-2 $17.99
(3) YA Lucy (the orphan Lynn saved in Not a Drop to Drink), now a teenager, lives in relative safety with friends and her adopted family. But after a polio outbreak--potentially stemming from their pond--devastates the community, Lucy and Lynn set out for California, which is rumored to have desalination plants. McGinnis's bleak but skillful narrative explores what it means to hope and to survive.
Reviewer: Shara Hardeson

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