Catherine Atkins, Author . Putnam $17.99 (199p) ISBN 978-0-399-23854-3
Carefully nuanced connections between characters plus insight into the adolescent ability to use low self-esteem as a cruel weapon catapults Atkins's (When Jeff Comes Home) novel of troubled teens well above the familiarity of its trappings (e.g.
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Catherine Atkins, Author . Penguin/Speak $5.99 (198p) ISBN 978-0-14-240235-1
"Carefully nuanced connections between characters plus insight into the adolescent ability to use low self-esteem as a cruel weapon catapults this novel of troubled teens well above the familiarity of its trappings," said PW
in a starred...
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Catherine Atkins, Author G. P. Putnam's Sons $17.99 (231p) ISBN 978-0-399-23366-1
Kidnapped from a roadside rest stop by a man named Ray, 16-year-old Jeff has spent the past two and a half years locked in a dark basement. He was whipped, mentally abused and forced to have sex with his captor if he wanted to eat. Now his kidnapper
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Catherine Atkins. Knopf, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-375-86906-8
Fifteen-year-old Angelyn is no stranger to trouble: she and her friends smoke daily in the girls’ bathroom, and she’s caught with her boyfriend in the back of his pickup truck during lunch. She has a painful past, too: when she was 12, Angelyn’s...
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