Molly Ballou, an Abenaki-French Canadian girl in 1920s Vermont, is haunted by her dead sister and her family's secrets as the government tries to force the Ballous and their neighbors out of their homes in an attempt to rid the state of its poor citizens.
year: 2008
call number/section: 1000
subjects: families, vermont, juvenile fiction, eugenics, abenaki indians, indians of north america, coming of age, fiction, vermont, history, 20th century, juvenile fiction, fiction