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a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus passes in front of the sun

A girl whose feelings are too big for her body

Drawing on firsthand accounts and the voluminous records produced by the federal government

from present-day Minnesota to the Mohawk territory of the 1620s

self-expression

The Berry Pickers horror a rare astronomical event inWinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. This showstopping debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma, and the persistence of love across time. July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four year old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six year old brother, Joe,