- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
- Length
- ≈ 288 pages
- Reading time
- 8–10 hours
- ISBN
- 144247467X
Reading time assumes 30–40 pages per hour; edition and reading pace affect this estimate. Edition source
What is this book about?
The novel follows twelve-year-old Summer, her troubled brother and her Japanese-American grandparents through one gruelling season of the wheat harvest in the present-day American Midwest. The National Book Award judges described it as a realistic portrayal of one family’s experience as migrant workers, and as a book about the relationships between generations.
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