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Poisoned Pencil
April 2014
On Sale: April 1, 2014
Featuring: Faith Flores; Melinda
350 pages
ISBN: 1929345003
EAN: 9781929345007
Kindle: B00JERU56O
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Young Adult
Life is tough when you have a junkie for a mom. But when
sixteen-year-old Faith Flores—scientist wannabe, loner, new
girl in town—finds her mom dead on the bathroom floor, she
refuses to believe her mom really OD'd. But the cops have
closed the case and her Aunt T, with whom she now lives in
the Philly ‘burbs, wants Faith to let go and move on.
But a note from Melinda, her mom's junkie friend, leads
Faith to a seedy downtown methadone clinic. Were her mom and
Melinda trying to get clean?
When Melinda dies of an overdose, Faith tracks down the
scientists behind the trial running at the methadone clinic.
Soon she's cutting school and lying to everyone—her aunt,
her best friend, even the cops. Everyone, that is, except
the strangely alluring Jesse, who believes the “real”
education's on the street and whose in-your-face honesty
threatens to invade Faith's self-imposed “no-dating” rule. A
drug-dealer named Rat-Catcher warns Faith to back off, but
it doesn't stop Faith from confronting a genetics professor
with a guilty conscience. When the medical examiner's body
winds up in the Schuylkill River, Faith realizes if she
doesn't act fast, she may be the next body in the morgue.
Can Faith stop this deal gone bad from taking a sharp turn
for the worse?
Death Spiral is a smart, surprising novel featuring an
in-your-face heroine sure to appeal to teens and adults alike.
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