Little Town on the Shale
A Girl Fights Hydrofracking
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About the Book
Maggie is an aspiring scientist who hopes to earn a full university scholarship. Her mother, who just applied for food stamps, and her father, who after months of unemployment took a job for half his previous pay, could never afford tuition. When she learns that her neighbor is considering leasing his land for gas drilling, Maggie studies the subject and finds herself becoming an activist. The dangers of hydrofracking are real, but in this small, rural, economically depressed town, will her neighbors believe the gas company’s promises of prosperity and safe drilling?
About the Author
Tracy Kinne is a graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She was a journalist for more than two decades. Her first book, On Sale: Employers Get Good Workers Dirt Cheap, a memoir about the four years she spent as a low-wage retail worker, took honorable mention in three international festivals: 2012 New York, Paris and New England. In Little Town, Kinne, who is a substitute teacher in a public school system, moves to young adult fiction, showing young people that they can make a difference for the better in their communities and in the world.