Family, Micol Ostow
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Label
Family, Micol Ostow
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Intended audience
840L, Lexile
resource.interestAgeLevel
013-17
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Family
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Oclc number
764448245
Responsibility statement
Micol Ostow
resource.studyProgramName
Accelerated Reader, UG, 4.3, 5, 5, 143823
Summary
In the 1960s, seventeen-year-old Melinda leaves an abusive home for San Francisco, meets the charismatic Henry, and follows him to his desert commune where sex and drugs are free, but soon his "family" becomes violent against rich and powerful people and she is compelled to join inches Told in episodic verse, [this] is a fictionalized exploration of cult dynamics, loosely based on the Manson Family murders of 1969
Target audience
adolescent
Classification
Creator
Genre
Subject
- Abused women -- Juvenile fiction
- Abused women -- Fiction
- Violence -- Fiction
- California -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Electronic books
- California -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Cults -- Fiction
- Violence -- Juvenile fiction
- Hippies -- Fiction
- Communal living -- Fiction
- Runaways -- Fiction
- Cults -- Juvenile fiction
- Communal living -- Juvenile fiction
- Hippies -- Juvenile fiction
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- Abused women -- Juvenile fiction
- Abused women -- Fiction
- Violence -- Fiction
- California -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Electronic books
- California -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Cults -- Fiction
- Violence -- Juvenile fiction
- Hippies -- Fiction
- Communal living -- Fiction
- Runaways -- Fiction
- Cults -- Juvenile fiction
- Communal living -- Juvenile fiction
- Hippies -- Juvenile fiction
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