This week's pick is Beyond the Billboard by Susan Gates (YA GATES).
Thirteen-year old twins Firebird and Ford Tucker have rarely questioned the life they lead with their father and grandmother in the swamp. Ford especially is happy with his life the way it is, trapping eels with his dad and staying away from the city that is plainly visible beyond the huge billboard at the edge of the swamp. Firebird wishes she could be content with the way things are (as apparently her long dead mother was), but finds herself wanting more, wanting to see what's beyond the billboard. And even though she knows she's not supposed to talk to strangers, she finds herself inexplicably drawn into a conversation with a woman from the city. And when she follows her grandmother out of the swamp for the first time one night, she soon understands her whole life as she has known it is about to change.
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