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Needell, Claire

The First True Thing

244 pp. | HarperTeen | April, 2019 | Trade ISBN 978-0-06-236052-6 $17.99
(3) YA Sixteen-year-old Marcelle receives a text from her friend Hannah asking Marcelle to cover for her--and then Hannah disappears. Was her disappearance drug-related? Were her shady friends involved? Marcelle asks these questions while struggling with alcohol dependency and attending vicious support group meetings designed for "bullying each other into sobriety." A gritty, tense novel about addiction and its consequences.
Reviewer: Rachel L. Smith

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