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Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
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Brothers and sisters, African American teenage girls, Motherless families, African American families, African American children, Fiction, Hurricane Katrina, 2005, Rural poor, Girls, Literary, Siblings, African American, Poor, Teenagers, Hurricane Katrina (2005) fast (OCoLC)fst01755264, African Americans, Family life, Roman, Natural disasters, Poverty, Amerikanisches Englisch, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, 1000blackgirlbooks, Large type books, Fiction, african american, christian, African americans, fiction, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Mississippi, fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, african american, general, Fiction, african american & black, general, Fiction, family life, general, collectionID:TexChallenge2021, Fiction, generalPlaces
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They heard it on the radio. A hurricane is coming, threatening the town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. Esch's hard-drinking father can feel it in his bones. Esch and her brothers are trying to help prepare, but there are other worries too. Skeetah is watching his prized pit bull, helpless as her new litter dies one by one. Randall, when not preoccupied with basketball, is busy looking after the youngest, Junior. And Esch, fifteen and motherless among men, has just realized that she's pregnant. The children of this family have always been short of nurture, but they are fiercely loyal to one another. It is together that they will face building storm- and the day that will dawn after.
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