Watts, Irene N.

When the bough breaks / Irene N. Watts. - Toronto, ON : Tundra Books, c2007. - 145 p. ; 20 cm.

Companion vol. to Flower.

Millie's family is tight-knit and loving, despite the hardships brought by the Great Depression. When Millie's mother announces that she is going to have a baby, life seems perfect. But suddenly everything changes when a strange "traveling" woman appears, reading patterns in tea leaves and making odd and unsettling predictions.

10 and up.

ISBN: 0887768210 (pbk.) 9780887768217 (pbk.)

Nat. Bib. No.: C20069068135

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Depressions--Canada--1929--Fiction.
Family--Fiction.
Fortune telling--Fiction.
Teenage girls--Fiction.
Children's literature--2008.

Dewey Class. No.: jC813/.54