01881cam a2200361 i 4500 395713462 TxAuBib 20191023120000.0 190405s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019015067 9781476749297 hardcover $27.00 1476749299 hardcover $27.00 (OCoLC)1097365098 TxAuBib rda Krueger, William Kent. This Tender Land / William Kent Krueger. First Atria Books hardcover edition (hardcover - black spine - white and lt yellow letters.) New York : Atria Books, 2019. ℗2019. 450 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "The acclaimed author of Ordinary Grace crafts a powerful novel about an orphan's life-changing adventure traveling down America's great rivers during the Great Depression, seeking both a place to call home and a sense of purpose in a world sinking into despair"-- Provided by publisher. 1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own. -- adapted from jacket. 20191023. Orphans Fiction. Voyages and travels Fiction. Indians of North America Fiction. Minnesota Fiction. Action and adventure fiction. TXMLR