Hale, Marian Goodbye Season, 270 p. Hnry Holt, 2009. Content: G. Mercy Kaplan wants more for herself than just slaving away her life taking care of a farm and a family. She gets a taste of independence when she is sent to work on a neighbor’s farm, but her world changes forever when the influenza of 1918 arrives and brings death to everyone she loves. To rebuild her life, Mercy makes her way to town and finds a job as the nanny for the widow Wilder, with two young children and a step-son near Mercy’s age. But the Wilder’s have secrets, dangerous secrets. Though set against the background of the 1918 influenza, the story really centers around Mercy’s life story and not so much the history. This would be a good novel to read aloud. EL, MS – ADVISABLE. Cindy, Library-Teacher.
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