"Wish Upon a Crawdad takes place at the end of the Great Depression (1940), during the early years of the electrification of rural America. The fictional story is told through the eyes of twelve-year-old Ruby Mae Ryan who lives on her family's farm in rural Oregon. One of her wishes is to get electricity ... Her family has joined the local electric co-op and they do what they can to help bring electricity to their valley. Now, with electricity on its way, Ruby has another wish and she's working hard to make it come true by the time electricity arrives"--