TY - BOOK AU - Crowder,Melanie TI - Parched SN - 9780547976518 (hardback) AV - PZ 7.C885382 .P213 2013 PY - 2013///] CY - Boston, New York PB - Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt KW - Survival KW - Fiction KW - Droughts KW - Rhodesian ridgeback KW - Dogs KW - JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / Survival Stories KW - bisacsh KW - JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Dogs KW - JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / Africa KW - JUVENILE FICTION / Nature & the Natural World / Environment KW - Africa N2 - Told from three perspectives, Sarel, who just witnessed the brutal murder of her parents, Nandi, the leader of a pack of dogs who looks out for her pups and Sarel, and Musa, an escaped prisoner with the water song inside him, struggle to survive in a land without water ER -