Leaving Paradise
Nothing has been the same since Caleb Becker left a party drunk, got behind the wheel, and hit Maggie Armstrong. Even after months of painful physical therapy, Maggie walks with a limp. Her social life is nil and a scholarship to study abroad—her chance to escape everyone and their pitying...
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Nothing has been the same since Caleb Becker left a party drunk, got behind the wheel, and hit Maggie Armstrong. Even after months of painful physical therapy, Maggie walks with a limp. Her social life is nil and a scholarship to study abroad—her chance to escape everyone and their pitying stares—has been canceled.
After a year in juvenile jail, Caleb’s free . . . if freedom means endless nagging from a transition coach and the prying eyes of the entire town. Coming home should feel good, but his family and ex-girlfriend seem like strangers.
Caleb and Maggie are outsiders, pigeon-holed as "criminal" and "freak." Then the truth emerges about what really happened the night of the accident and, once again, everything changes. It’s a bleak and tortuous journey for Caleb and Maggie, yet they end up finding comfort and strength from a surprising source: each other.
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Format: papier
ISBN:
0738710180
Publish date: 8 kwietnia 2007
Publisher: Flux
Pages no: 303
Edition language: English
Series: Leaving Paradise (#1)
Now I have to be upfront, I do not like YA books, its a genre I avoid as much as possible, but I have a challenge to read a book from an author with the same initials as me and this feel into my lap. That being said, I really really enjoyed this book. I think it was so honest, and real, I think the ...
Caleb darf zurück nach Paradise, er wird vorzeitig aus der Haft entlassen. Doch dort angekommen ist alles anderes, als er es sich vorgestellt hat. Seine Familie ist nur noch ein Trümmerhaufen, genau wie sein Leben. Während er seine Sozialstunden bei Mrs. Reynolds ableistet, kommen er und Maggie sich...
3.25 stars, and that's simply because of the ending. Unlike the other book I've read by the author, Perfect Chemistry, I wasn't as drawn into this. I liked certain parts more than others and the romance seemed to just appear between one chapter and the next but at the same time I kinda really like...
Opening Line: "I'd been waiting a year for this moment" I don’t generally read much YA stuff however Caleb and Maggie’s forbidden coming of age romance got to me and I found myself quite wrapped up in all their teenaged angst. I guess it was the unique story idea that first piqued my interest; tha...
I'm a glutton for punishment. I really am. I DNF'd this on like, the 5th page. And then I got bored and decided to skim the rest. It was horrible. And it continued to be horrible. Poorly written, stilted simple sentences, ridiculously trite dialogue, and nothing but selfish, greedy characters.I can'...
11 years ago
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