Nicholas Dane
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781842701812 (1842701819)
Publish date: June 4th 2009
Publisher: Andersen
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Adventure,
Teen,
Survival,
Realistic Fiction,
Health,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Sociology,
Mental Health,
Social Issues,
Abuse
When people start opining on the pages of the Wall Street Journal about how dark and disturbing YA fiction is, this is the sort of book you'd expect them to hold up. Because it is just as dark and disturbing as it can be. Nick's single mother, a sometime user of heroin dies of an overdose right in t...