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149 pp.
| Atheneum |
December, 2011 |
TradeISBN 978-1-4169-5772-0$16.99
(4)
YA
Traumatized by her past, her parents' deaths, and an abusive brother, a sixteen-year-old girl who calls herself Leia runs away to the zoo. There she finds refuge, the beginning of a friendship, and a break from her destructive cutting. The relief is short-lived, and there is little resolution in this harrowing (if occasionally confusing) psychological drama.