![]() ![]() Then a stripe of orange, and a bright yellow stripe at the top. Above the purple, the sand turns rusty red, the color of caveman blood. The bottom is inky purple, from a million years ago when the universe banged itself together. When moonlight hits the ridge, it glitters like a Christmas ornament. The desert makes for a nice change of scenery in a middle grade novel, and the author succeeds in lyrically rendering the beauty of the desert as well as its stifling heat. ![]() At least Mom and Dad are dreading it, too. Instead of a summer filled with pool parties and barbecues, I'll be spending my days on a dusty sheep ranch with a grandfather whom I've never met. ![]() Twelve-year-old Carolina (Carol) has to spend the summer in the middle of the New Mexican desert with her family as they prepare her grandfather, Serge, to move into a care facility for elderly people with dementia. ![]()
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