Beyond the Divide
Kathryn Lasky. Laurel Leaf Library, $3.25 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-440-91021-3
An Amish girl, Meribah Simon, goes west with her father who has been ""shunned,'' or forced to leave their Amish community. Along the way she tries to help a friend get over a vicious rape, copes with the illness and death of her father, and grows from a passive child who relied on a community for her needs to a fiercely independent young woman. (12-up)
Details
Reviewed on: 03/04/1986
Genre: Children's
Hardcover - 978-0-02-751670-8
Mass Market Paperbound - 254 pages - 978-0-689-80163-1
