# Backwater

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- Book: [Backwater](https://www.bookquiver.com/joan-bauer/backwater) ([Backwater.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/joan-bauer/backwater.md))
- Authors: [Joan Bauer](https://www.bookquiver.com/joan-bauer)
- Publisher: speak
- ISBN: 978-01-4240-434-8
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2005-06-02
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

From the author Newbery Honor winner Hope Was Here comes a story of a girl who takes herself on a journey through the Adirondacks in the name of family. “Bauer's characters crackle with eccentricity...