01687cam a2200349 4500 216696259 TxAuBib 20150527120000.0 060928t20051990||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 86046571 9780060921149 pbk. 0060921145 pbk. TxAuBib Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal dreams [paperback] : a novel / Barbara Kingsolver. New York, NY : HarperPerennial, 2005. ©1990. xii, 352 p. ; 21 cm. "Reissued in Perennial 2003 and 2005"--T.p. verso. A young woman returns to her hometown to care for her father and, without knowing it, herself. As usual, Codi is seeking to avoid life, but instead she finds plenty of it. She begins a complicated romance with a former boyfriend, corresponds with her sister, Hallie, who is kidnapped and then murdered in Nicaragua, tries to convince her father that his declining mental abilities are interfering with his work as a physician, and attempts to save the town from the evil Black Mountain Mining Company, which is poisoning the river and threatening the region's future. 790 Lexile. Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.7 17.0 70076. 20150527. Courage Fiction. Sisters Fiction. Good and evil Fiction. Fathers and daughters Fiction. Indians of North America Southwest, New Religion Fiction. Southwest, New Fiction. Love stories. TXLMP