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laurel would do anything to turn back time to tell her mother and grandmother not to stay home near the beach with a hurricane coming to say no when her boyfriend, T-Boom, the co-captain of the basketball team, offers her that first hit of moon the drug that makes her feel bigger than all she s lost to have been there for her little brother and her best friend, Kaylee, when they needed her, instead of chasing the moon But she can t. All she can do is move forward now. And only she can decide whether to face the pain and joy that is a part of living, or follow the moon to numbness and probably death. Only she can decide to choose to be there for her family and friends or give them another thing to grieve. Kaylee says, Write an elegy to the past . . . and move on. She says it s all about moving on . . .

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Woodson maintains tension throughout, making it abundantly clear how easy it is to succumb to meth and how difficult it is to recover from it. --Publishers Weekly, starred review A moving, honest, and hopeful story. --Kirkus, starred review This powerful, stripped-down novel chronicles a girl's journey from popular cheerleader to homeless meth user to recovering addict...An outstanding novel that succeeds on every level. --School Library Journal, starred review A slim but affecting novel. --Booklist Woodson takes us on the dark journey of addiction, mimicking the slow, hazy spell of drug use with the lull of her poetic prose. . . . Laurel's descent is brutally honest. . . . An intimate and compelling story of survival. --The Horn Book As accurate as it is heartbreaking; readers will be deeply moved . . . they'll sympathize with [Laurel's] desire to find some way to feel better. . . . Readers looking to understand the attraction of a destructive substance will get a glimmer of understanding. --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Will not disappoint readers. . . . Ends on a hopeful note: perhaps it is possible to write pain 'into the past and leave some of it there, ' and reimagine a future. --Booklist Powerful. A moving, honest, and hopeful story. -- Kirkus, starred review Woodson maintains tension throughout, making it abundantly clear how easy it is to succumb to meth and how difficult it is to recover from it. -- Publishers Weekly, starred review This powerful, stripped-down novel chronicles a girl's journey from popular cheerleader to homeless meth user to recovering addict...An outstanding novel that succeeds on every level. -- School Library Journal, starred review Woodson takes us on the dark journey of addiction, mimicking the slow, hazy spell of drug use with the lull of her poetic prose. . . . Laurel's descent is brutally honest. . . . An intimate and compelling story of survival. -- The Horn Book As accurate as it is heartbreaking; readers will be deeply moved . . . they'll sympathize with [Laurel's] desire to find some way to feel better. . . . Readers looking to understand the attraction of a destructive substance will get a glimmer of understanding. -- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Will not disappoint readers. . . . Ends on a hopeful note: perhaps it is possible to write pain 'into the past and leave some of it there, ' and reimagine a future. -- Booklist Powerful.

A moving, honest, and hopeful story. -- Kirkus, starred review Woodson maintains tension throughout, making it abundantly clear how easy it is to succumb to meth and how difficult it is to recover from it. -- Publishers Weekly, starred review This powerful, stripped-down novel chronicles a girl's journey from popular cheerleader to homeless meth user to recovering addict...An outstanding novel that succeeds on every level. -- School Library Journal, starred review Woodson takes us on the dark journey of addiction, mimicking the slow, hazy spell of drug use with the lull of her poetic prose. . . . Laurel's descent is brutally honest. . . . An intimate and compelling story of survival. -- The Horn Book As accurate as it is heartbreaking; readers will be deeply moved . . . they'll sympathize with [Laurel's] desire to find some way to feel better. . . . Readers looking to understand the attraction of a destructive substance will get a glimmer of understanding. -- The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Will not disappoint readers. . . . Ends on a hopeful note: perhaps it is possible to write pain 'into the past and leave some of it there, ' and reimagine a future. -- Booklist Powerful.

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Jacqueline Woodson (www.jacquelinewoodson.com), winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, is the author of Newbery Honor winners After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way, Coretta Scott King Honor winner and Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Miracle's Boys, National Book Award finalists Locomotion and Hush, and many others. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

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