Bestselling author of Scythe and Challenger Deep Neal Shusterman, here with coauthors Debra Young and Michelle Knowlden, tells an intense yet tender story of two teens, trapped in impossible circumstances and unjust systems, willing to risk everything for love-no matter the consequences.
Adriana knows that if she can manage to keep her head down for the next seven months, she might be able to get through her sentence in the Compass juvenile detention center. Thankfully, she's allowed to keep her journal, where she writes down her most private thoughts when her feelings get too big.
Until the day she opens her journal and discovers that her thoughts are no longer so private. Someone has read her writings-and has written back. A boy who lives on the other side of the gender-divided detention center. A boy who sparks a fire in her to write back.
Jon's story is different than Adriana's; he's already been at Compass for years and will be in the system for years to come. Still, when he reads the words Adriana writes to him, it makes him feel like the walls that hold them in have melted away.
This fast-paced, highly compelling tour de force novel exposes what life is like in detention-and reveals the hearts of two teens who are forced to live in desperate circumstances.
| ISBN: | 9780062875761 |
| Publication date: | 18th July 2024 |
| Author: | Neal Shusterman, Debra Young, Michelle Knowlden |
| Publisher: | Quill Tree Books an imprint of HarperCollins |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 432 pages |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction Children’s / Teenage fiction: Romance and love stories Children’s / Teenage general interest: Law, police and crime Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Emotions, moods, feelings and behaviours Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Bullying, violence, abuse and peer pressure Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction Children’s / Teenage: Personal and social topics |