Martine Leavitt

"The coming of age story of Rebecca Leavitt as she searches for her identity in the Northwest Territories of Canada"-- Provided by publisher. Seventeen-year-old Rebecca Leavitt has traveled by covered wagon from Utah to the Northwest Territories of Canada, where her father and brothers are now homesteading and establishing a new community with other Latter-Day Saints. Rebecca is old enough to get married, but what kind of man would she marry and...

This riveting story is about a fifteen-year-old boy who, as the story opens, realizes he has no idea who he is-beyond his first name-or what has led to his loss of memory. From the outset, he's on the run, a street kid thrust out on his own, living by his wits and involved in a quest to find another lost teenager whose First Nations father is desperate for news of his son. In the process, he learns to survive and begins to get a sense of his strengths...

The author of several critically acclaimed books for young adults, Martine Leavitt received one of publishing's highest honors when her novel Keturah and Lord Death was named a finalist for the National Book Award. After 16-year-old Angel is lured into prostitution by an older man, she vows that something has to change when an even younger girl is initiated into the life.