Daisy "Willie" Wilcox and her family struggle to survive after the Civil War when a horrifying sickness in which infected people--shakes-- attack the living in West Texas, but when her good-for-nothing father steals a fortune from one of the shake hunters in town, Willie, with two hunters as guides, sets out across the desert to find her father.
year: 2018
call number/section: 1000
subjects: survival, juvenile fiction, diseases, deserts, fiction, texas, juvenile fiction, fiction, horror fiction, action and adventure fiction, alternative histories (fiction), science fiction, fantasy fiction