The Springsweet
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HarperCollins · Ebook · April 17, 2012
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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- Who it’s for
- A frontier romance pairs hard-won survival with the ache of wanting a life beyond it.
- Themes
- Grief and healing, Survival on the frontier, Longing for love
- Genres
- Historical YA Romance, Magical Realism for Teens, YA Fantasy
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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.
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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.
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
Where it sits
| Historical YA Romance | 43% |
|---|---|
| Magical Realism for Teens | 36% |
| YA Fantasy | 31% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
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
- Authors
- Saundra Mitchell
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- April 17, 2012
- Format
- Ebook
- Theme
- Grief and healing · Survival on the frontier · Longing for love
- Reading lane
- Coming of Age