03007cam a2200349 4500 555172320 TxAuBib 20220428120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781386988403 1386988405 ac9d47f7-30fa-4436-92b0-b3657d98de1b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4245303 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Gabriel, Susan. The Secret Sense of Wildflower [Libby eBook] : Southern Historical Fiction (Wildflower Trilogy Book 1): Wildflower, #1. Wild Lily Arts, 2018. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 499kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. appalachian fiction. Historical Fiction. Southern fiction. southern authors. southern novels. HTML:<p><strong>"There are two things I am afraid of. One is dying young. The other is Johnny Monroe."</strong></p> <p>Small southern towns have few secrets. But when a grieving daughter confronts the local bully, she unwittingly triggers a series of traumatic events that will change her life forever.</p> <p>Appalachia, 1941. Thirteen-year-old Louisa May "Wildflower" McAllister's heart still aches for her father. A year after her dad's tragic sawmill accident, she relies on her strength of spirit and her heightened intuition to deal with a critical mother and cope with the aftermath. Despite these hardships, Wildflower has a resilience that is forged with humor, a love of the land, and an endless supply of questions.</p> <p>But when she's targeted by the town's teenage bad boy, she may need more than her "secret sense" to survive.</p> <p>Will Wildflower fall to another tragedy or will her strength be enough to carry her through?</p> <p>With prose as lush and colorful as the American south, The Secret Sense of Wildflower is powerful and poignant, brimming with energy and angst, humor and hope.</p> <p>* * *</p> <p><strong>Named a Best Book of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews: "A quietly powerful story, at times harrowing but ultimately a joy to read."</strong></p> <p>"This was chosen by our book club as our book for the month. I am so happy it was! It was the best book of the year." – Cecilia C.</p> <p>"I've never read a story as dramatically understated that sings so powerfully and honestly about the sense of life that stands in tribute to bravery as Susan Gabriel's The Secret Sense of Wildflower." – T.T. Thomas</p>. Historical Fiction. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-04-28 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ac9d47f7-30fa-4436-92b0-b3657d98de1b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ac9d47f7-30fa-4436-92b0-b3657d98de1b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)