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Linda Martin
This is a dramatic, gripping story told in the voice of a girl, Carey, whose mentally ill meth addict mother kidnapped her and kept her hidden in a trailer in a forest for many years. After her younger sister was born Carey took on the mothering role as her irresponsible mother left them alone in the trailer for weeks at a time with inadequate food supplies. The story starts when a child welfare worker and her father show up to rescue the children. By this time Carey is 14. The novel is about Ca ...more
Ruth
Oct 27, 2012 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Heartbreaking and beautiful!
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Shelves: tbr-genre, winter-3
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Shelves: young-adult, fiction, 2013
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Jun 01, 2014 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: 2014, young-adult
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