The ultimate beach read. Seven chapters take place on beaches. You will laugh the sand right out of your crevices.
What If A Girl furrows some Catholic brows in her attempt to become the first girl to serve Mass, in archaic 1972? What if she also works at a county fair for an ex-con named Turtle, and takes her parents' car around the block, hitting three parked cars and a truck, all before here fourteenth birthday? What if that girl grows up so addicted to both fun and its by-product, trouble that she becomes addicted to both?
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The getaway car sped away at thirteen mph and I felt another sickening crunch. I slammed on the brakes after seeing that we'd French-kissed the '69 Impala parked in front of the Butlers' house. I had regained control of the wheel, but Lynn put her foot next to mine, which was on the brake, and forced it onto the accelerator.
Jamie was a healthy, active 12-year old who loved to skate and played hockey as well as any boy. Then one afternoon during a game, she suffered a stroke that changed her world. Her memoir takes the reader through her ordeal and her journey out of the
At the young of age of seven, Jill's mother Eve takes her for regular sessions to a child psychologist for treatment of her anxiety, which only makes her behavior worse. When she reaches her teens, she starts drinking and then smoking marijuana with
