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OLDER FICTION
Ayarbe, Heidi

Compromised

454 pp. | HarperTeen | May, 2010 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-172849-5 $16.99
(3) YA Her con-man father imprisoned, fifteen-year-old Maya skips out on foster care. Traveling from Nevada to Idaho, Maya is joined by suicidal kleptomaniac Nicole and Klondike, a boy with Tourette's syndrome. The realities of street life, including prostitution and drugs, are confronted full-on; some graphic language underscores the bleakness. The ending of this searing story of survival is hopeful (if not quite believable).
Reviewer: Carolyn Shute

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