After the wreck, I picked myself up, spread my wings, and flew away

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292 pages

English language

Published Nov. 19, 2006 by HarperTempest.

ISBN:
978-0-06-073525-8
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Blaming herself for the car accident on the Tappan Zee Bridge that killed her mother, fifteen-year-old Jenna undergoes a difficult physical and emotional recovery.

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I've read this author before - in the adult section, and with mixed thoughts - but I thought I'd try her out as a YA author. in a word: yuck. the drama is over-the-top, the psychiatric help is absent, and the surrogate parents are willfully blind. whereas I found her characters in her adult novel behaving realistically, I thought these characters were little more than stereotypes.

Subjects

  • Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction.
  • Death -- Fiction.
  • Emotional problems -- Fiction.
  • Drug abuse -- Fiction.
  • Traffic accidents -- Fiction.