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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 Floresβscientist wannabe, loner, new girl in townβfinds 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 βburbs, 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 everyoneβher aunt, her best friend, even the cops. Everyone, that is, except the strangely alluring Jesse, who believes the βrealβ education's on the street and whose in-your-face honesty threatens to invade Faith's self-imposed βno-datingβ 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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