The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

Recommended for Grade 12

(Page last edited 10/09/2017)

• Title: The Bean Trees
• Author: Barbara Kingsolver
• ISBN: 0061765228
• ISBN 13: 978-0061765223

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Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child, a three-year-old American Indian girl named Turtle, and must somehow come to terms with both motherhood and the necessity for putting down roots. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in apparently empty places.

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