Language: R (53 swears, 21 ‘f'); Mature Content: PG (mother using drugs); Violence: PG (death by drug overdose)
BUYING ADVISORY: MS, HS - OPTIONAL
APPEALS TO: SEVERAL
When 16yo Penny arrives at her mother’s place and finds her overdosed, she’s thrown back to when her mother was a good parent, before her accident and the opioid addiction that followed. Penny remembers the teasing from classmates when she didn’t have clean clothes or a decent lunch from home. She remembers being taken from her mother and living with her loving grandparents and seeing them giving her mother a chance to do better. Penny’s mother didn’t kick the addiction; it took over her life and Penny’s. Penny learned that she has a light inside that has helped her throughout her life and she meets a kind teen boy and makes good friends. She is finally seen.
Emotionally cleansing. Hotlines for help of many kinds at the end of the book. Words of affirmation, hope and encouragement.
Ethnicity includes white and brown skin characters.
LynnDell Watson, DHS Librarian, Delta, Utah
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