Lascarso, Laura
Counting Backwards, 279 pgs.
Atheneum Books, 2012. $16.99 Content: Language: PG-13 (18 swears; 3 F);
Mature Content: PG-13; Violence: PG-13.
Taylor has been living with her alcoholic mother and covering for her
mistakes ever since her father left them.
After tripping on a drunk man in the hallway in the middle of the night,
Taylor decides that she wants to run away from it all. She takes the man’s car keys and steals his
car. When the police catch up to her,
she resists arrest and finds herself before a juvenile detention judge. Taylor’s father asks the judge to put Taylor
in Sunny Meadows, a place where she can get help from psychiatrists, instead of
in juvenile detention. When Taylor
arrives at Sunny Meadows she obsesses about escaping the prison-like setting
and with the help of her new friend, A.J. she feels even closer to her goal of
freedom.
This is a great book that shows
consequences for bad actions. Taylor is
like any tough teenage girl and she thinks she has all the answers, but when
pushed to her limits and humbled to finally seek help she realizes that there
are people out there that might be able to help her navigate her life. The characters in this book are easy to
relate to and as a reader I found myself cheering for their success. This was a satisfying read and realistic
about the consequences of illegal behavior.
MS, HS-ADVISABLE. Reviewer, C.
Peterson.
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