At the request of her social worker, 13-year-old Linda gradually reveals how her life with her unstable mother and her younger brother led to her rape and the murder she witnessed. This "School Library Journal's" Best Book of the Year, "pushes the envelope of children's literature" ("Booklist").

ISBN 9780606000017

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Written by Ben Werdmuller