Category:
Contemporary,
General Fiction,
Teen & Young AdultLanguage:
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Abuse Drugs Family Secrets Middle grade SurvivalWritten by Wendelin Van Draanen
Read by Emma Galvin
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 256 Kbps
Unabridged
“It’s a cold, hard, cruel fact that my mother loved heroin more than she loved me.”
Holly is in her fifth foster home in two years and she’s had enough. She’s run away before and always been caught quickly. But she’s older and wiser now–she’s twelve–and this time she gets away clean.
Through tough and tender and angry and funny journal entries, Holly spills out her story. We travel with her across the country–hopping trains, scamming food, sleeping in parks or homeless encampments. And we also travel with her across the gaping holes in her heart–as she finally comes to terms with her mother’s addiction and death.