Tideland is the third published book by author Mitch Cullin, and is the third installment of the writer`s Texas Trilogy that also includes the coming-of-age novel Whompyjawed and the novel-in-verse Branches. The story is a first-person narrative told by the young Jeliza-Rose, detailing the summer she spent alone at an isolated, rundown farmhouse .... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tideland