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	Hartnett, Sonya. THURSDAY'S CHILD Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2002. IL YA ISBN 0763616206
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews	Through the many years of the Great Depression, the young Harper Flute watches with a child’s eyes her family’s struggle to survive in a hot and impoverished land. As life on the surface grows harsher, her little brother Tin, so fated in his family’s life even deeper into a subterranean world of darkness and troubling secrets of wandering, until his memory becomes a myth barely whispered around the countryside. Harper must learn to let wild Tin go, like so much of what she loves. But will the child in her leave with him? (Samara Dibble, Mansfield High School)
	SUBJECTS: Poverty -- Fiction. Family life -- Fiction. Farm life -- Fiction.

Hartnett, Sonya.

THURSDAY'S CHILD

Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2002.

IL YA

ISBN 0763616206

Click on the book to read Amazon reviews

Through the many years of the Great Depression, the young Harper Flute watches with a child’s eyes her family’s struggle to survive in a hot and impoverished land. As life on the surface grows harsher, her little brother Tin, so fated in his family’s life even deeper into a subterranean world of darkness and troubling secrets of wandering, until his memory becomes a myth barely whispered around the countryside. Harper must learn to let wild Tin go, like so much of what she loves. But will the child in her leave with him? (Samara Dibble, Mansfield High School)

SUBJECTS: Poverty -- Fiction.

Family life -- Fiction.

Farm life -- Fiction.