SuitabookGrowing up amid change
Aurora must adapt to life on an organic farm during an eventful summer involving love and major family change.
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Yvonne Prinz - Author
This is a contemporary coming-of-age story about Aurora’s unsettled summer: adapting to farm life, falling in love, coping with her mother’s permanent departure, and witnessing her father defend undocumented Mexican farm workers.
Almost sixteen-year-old city-transplant Aurora must adapt to life on an organic farm as she navigates an eventful summer when she falls in love, discovers that her mother has left for good, and watches her father take a bold stand in defense of the rights of undocumented Mexican farm workers. Almost 16, Aurora must adapt to farm life as she falls in love, discovers that her mother has left for good, and watches her father take a bold stand in defense of farm workers. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, and violence.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a contemporary coming-of-age story about Aurora’s unsettled summer: adapting to farm life, falling in love, coping with her mother’s permanent departure, and witnessing her father defend undocumented Mexican farm workers.
Aurora must adapt to life on an organic farm during an eventful summer involving love and major family change.
Aurora discovers that her mother has left for good while she is adjusting to a new way of life.
Aurora watches her father take a bold stand in defence of the rights of undocumented Mexican farm workers.
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