Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky. She escapes to the west but by the time she arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a three-year-old Indian girl named Turtle. Can she come to terms with motherhood and put down roots?.
year: 1988, 1992, 2009, 2001, 1998
call number/section: 1000
subjects: native american children, north america, fiction, orphans, friendship, automobile travel, young women, travel, west (united states), kingsolver, barbara, indian children, women travelers, west (u.s.), humorous fiction, bildungsromans
Editions
Kingsolver, Barbara
Harper & Row (1988)
Taylor, a poor Kentuckian, makes her way west with an abandoned baby girl and stops in Tucson. There she finds friends and discovers resources in apparently empty places.
Schools: 5
Kingsolver, Barbara
HarperPerennial (1992)
Schools: 3
Kingsolver, Barbara
HarperPerennial Modern Classics (2009)
Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky. She escapes to the west but by the time she arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a three-year-old Indian girl named Turtle. Can she come to terms with motherhood and put down roots?.
Schools: 1
Kingsolver, Barbara
HarperTorch (2001)
Taylor, a poor Kentuckian, makes her way west with an abandoned baby girl and stops in Tucson. There she finds friends and discovers resources in apparently empty places.
Schools: 13
Kingsolver, Barbara
Harpertorch (1998)
Taylor Greer hits the road wanting only to get as far away from Kentucky as possible, ending up in Arizona with a 3-year-old Cherokee girl she has inherited from a woman in a bar.
Schools: 0
Kingsolver, Barbara
Taylor, a poor Kentuckian, makes her way west with an abandoned baby girl and stops in Tucson. There she finds friends and discovers resources in apparently empty places.
Schools: 2