Kingsolver, Barbara      <br/><br/>
Bean Trees 
 The Bean Trees 
Barbara Kingsolver 
 - New York  Harper Perennial  1992 
 - 246 p. 
 - Greer Family   Book 1 . <br/><br/> It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant. She succeeds, but inherits a three-year-old Native American girl named Turtle along the way, and together, from Oklahoma to Arizona, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new life in the West. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in seemingly empty places.<br/><br/>This edition includes a P.S. section with additional insights from the author, background material, suggestions for further reading, and more. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0060915544 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Friendship<br/>Didactic fiction.<br/>Indian children<br/>Orphans<br/>Women travelers<br/>Young women
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Tucson (Ariz.) --Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>Kin   2