Marsden yearns to take her sister and escape Glory, a town famous for seedy businesses and suicides, but her friendship with Jude yields secrets that may chain them to the Indigo River forever. The town of Glory is famous for two things: businesses that front for seedy, if not illegal, enterprises and the suicides that happen along the Indigo River. Marsden is desperate to escape the {28}bed-and-breakfast

"Many of the world's major cities sprang up on the banks of rivers. Used for water, food, irrigation, transportation and power, rivers sustain life and connect places and countries, but most of us think of them simply as water-ways that must be crossed on the way to somewhere else. Relating the biographies of four European and two North American rivers, "A Story of Six Rivers" considers the place of rivers in our world and emphasizes the inextricable...

Explains how rivers change the landscape as they flow from mountains to the sea, how they provide a home for plants and animals, and how humans use rivers.

"Describes the geography of rivers, the impact humans have on them, and conservation of these areas. Also describes plant and animal life in and around rivers. Includes hands-on activities"--Provided by publisher.

Learn how rivers can make civilizations rise or crumble, divide cultures or link them together, and even provide crucial clues to where we came from.