{"product_id":"that-girl-in-the-boxcar-tim-wickenden-9781916104860","title":"That Girl in The Boxcar: An American Historical Family Saga","description":"A suffocating secret may consume her.\u003cbr\u003eA chance meeting offers salvation.\u003cbr\u003eWill she sink into the dark or rise to the light?\u003cp\u003eIdaho 1925. Desperate and with nowhere to go, Heidi Schlager's life hangs in the balance. Growing up with an abusive, alcoholic father, the exhausted and traumatized teen, eager to flee home, stows away on a train where she encounters an aging hobo. And after the intelligent bookworm recites a poem to her literary companion, she sparks an instant friendship and delights in sticking together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRiding to a town in Iowa to meet her new pal's sometime-lover, Heidi's unrelenting feelings of despair intrude on the warm friendship developing between the three. Plagued by powerful emotional conflicts, confusing sexual desires, and ghosts from her past threatening to drown her, she struggles with the temptation to give up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan this warm-hearted teen with no one to hold on to discover a found family to help her survive?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThat Girl in The Boxcar\u003c\/i\u003e is the sweeping first book in The Reisen historical fiction series. If you like courageous heroines, hopeful themes, and redeeming relationships, then you'll adore Tim Wickenden's tale of self-discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tim Wickenden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 191610486X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781916104860\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Slugado Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/27\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d","brand":"Tim Wickenden","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46881146962175,"sku":"9781916104860","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9020b7be-0bdf-4a3c-8a9a-1f7d729211cb.jpg?v=1747970817","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/that-girl-in-the-boxcar-tim-wickenden-9781916104860","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}