![]() ![]() ![]() When another teen, sexually abused by her father, falls under Alex’s thrall and reaches out to Cassie for help, the seventh grader hits rock bottom. ![]() Cassie shows remarkable insight in her first-person narration, even through her drug-induced fog. Her dysfunctional, self-absorbed parents are numb to her growing despair, which results from her out-of-control behavior. And from there she goes along, unresisting, with everything else: heavy drinking, constant use of myriad drugs, sexual encounters that she dislikes and theft. When green-haired Alex invites-actually drags-her over to the table where the “dangerous” ninth-grade boys sit, she goes along. Thirteen-year-old Cassie makes a snap decision to reinvent her nerdy, unpopular self when she moves to a new school district in Seattle. ![]()
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