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    Desert Crossing
    Desert Crossing
    Desert Crossing
    Audiobook5 hours

    Desert Crossing

    Written by Elise Broach

    Narrated by Amy Rubinate

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    There are some kinds of trouble you never see coming, like those thunderstorms that start from nothing at all. One minute the sky is bright blue and distant. Then, all of a sudden, it's dark and thick with clouds, pressing down right on top of you. The leaves turn silvery and twist in the wind, the air starts to hum, and the rain comes, so heavy and fast you can't even see. You almost never make it to the house on time.

    A dead body on the road―who is responsible and how will it affect the lives of three teens?

    For fourteen-year-old Lucy Martinez, the moment when everything changes comes one night during a long car trip with her older brother and his friend Kit. They are on their way to visit Lucy's father for spring break, but never make it. While driving across northern New Mexico through a blinding rainstorm, their car hits something―an animal, they think. But when they backtrack, they find a dead body on the side of the road.

    With amazing insight and compelling prose, Elise Broach charts a suspenseful journey full of danger, loss, and painful self-discovery. What will happen to the lives of three teenagers who can suddenly no longer pretend innocence?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJun 21, 2011
    ISBN9781441813596
    Desert Crossing
    Author

    Elise Broach

    Elise Broach is the New York Times bestselling author of Masterpiece, Shakespeare’s Secret and Desert Crossing, Missing on Superstition Mountain, the first book in the Superstition Mountain Trilogy, as well as several picture books. Her books have been selected as ALA notable books, Junior Library Guild selections, a Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book, a New York Public Library Best Book for the Teenage, an IRA Teacher’s Choice, an E.B. White Read Aloud Award, and nominated for an Edgar Award, among other distinctions. Ms. Broach holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in history from Yale University. She was born in Georgia and lives in the woods of rural Connecticut, walking distance from three farms, a library, a post office and two country stores.

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    • 2/5
      This story is about a girl Lucy who goes on a road trip with her brother Jamie and his friend Kit. They are traveling at night during a storm when they hit something. Lucy wants to go back and see what they hit but when they go back she wishes she never asked. The three of them find a girl laying in the ditch, dead. As the story progresses Lucy becomes obsessed with finding out what has truly happened to the girl. And she refuses to leave the area until the girl's identity is found and her killer brought to justice.