author Laura Wiess


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                                                                      JANUARY 2008

LEFTOVERS  
MTV Books/S&S

Blair and Ardith are best friends who have committed an unforgivable act in the name of love and justice. But in order to understand what could drive two young women to such extreme measures, first you'll have to understand why. You'll have to listen as they describe parents who are alternately absent and smothering, classmates who mock and shun anyone different, and young men who are allowed to hurt and dominate without consequence.

You will have to learn what it's like to be a teenage girl who locks her bedroom door at night, who has been written off by the adults around her as damaged goods. A girl who has no one to trust except the one person she's forbidden to see.

You'll have to understand what it's really like to be forgotten and abandoned in America today. 

Are you ready?


                                                               Reviews
    

 LEFTOVERS UK coming July 2008

 


An ALA 2008 Best Books for Young  
Adults and Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers

3/08 -- Nominated for the 2009 Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award

    Kirkus  
  Starred Review                          
 
VOYA Review, 4Q 4PS
  
KLIATT Review 
  BOOKLIST Review

          
Such a Pretty Girl     
MTV Books/S&S
January 2007

RECORDED BOOKS Audio Book -- August 2007

UK Edition August 2007   
   
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