My Lists
Featured Lists
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2017 | Young Adult
Gr 9 Up—Darcy is a raker—she harvests blueberries at the Wardwell Farm alongside migrant farmworkers in Sansoa, ME. It's not true that nothing ever happens in a small town: in this one, "MISSING" posters depicting Darcy's friend Rhiannon hang from every telephone pole on Main Street, and Darcy's cousin Nell thinks she has fallen in love with a teacher, which no one but Darcy knows about. Lacking the means to leave, the teen falls into risky behavior—excessive drinking and ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2017
Darcy Celeste Prentiss "lives in the ass-end of nowhere. Rakes berries. Flunks algebra. The end." But that is not the whole story. It is summer in her small Maine town, and things are complicated for seventeen-year-old Darcy. There's the matter of the boy she wants and the boy she regrets, both working beside her in the blueberry barren...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2018
Darcy Celeste Prentiss "lives in the ass-end of nowhere. Rakes berries. Flunks algebra. The end." But that is not the whole story. It is summer in her small Maine town, and things are complicated for seventeen-year-old Darcy. There's the matter of the boy she wants and the boy she regrets, both working beside her in the blueberry barren...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
