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On Winter's Wind
A Novel
By Hermes, Patricia
- ISBN
- 978-0-31635-978-8
- Publisher
- Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown, c1995.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 1995
Gr 4-6 It has been two years since anyone has heard from Genevieve's sea captain father. She has almost accepted the probability that he is lost at sea, while her mother and younger sister, Leila, hold on to the hope that he will return. The strain of waiting and worrying has made their mother dysfunctional--she sits and stares toward the harbor hardly noticing what is going on around her. Genevieve realizes that she is the only one capable of saving the family financially. She decides to find work, an unheard of propos...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
