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SOLVED: Children's/YA > SOLVED. YA early 2000's/late 90's, girl falsely accused of threatening school gets kicked out and sent to corrupt outwardbound style program w/ male best fried, must escape [s]

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Stacy | 5 comments I read this book about 15 years ago, repeatedly, it was really funny. The MC is a teen aged girl who, I think, hears a doll talk (?? or she pretended it did), maybe has her cousin move in who is really mean (??) but ultimately she and her best friend, a guy who works at haunted house, get sent to this wilderness program for delinquents because she wrote something for the school paper, or something like that, that was taken as a threat to the school and she got kicked out. This outward bound like thing is like run by corrupt people or something like that and they are locked up at one point, and then escape. I remember really distinctly that her friend is described as having a weak chin, and their captors read to them from the Grey's Anatomy.
I've been looking for this book for YEARS. I think the author is female, I'm pretty sure her last name is in the latter half of the alphabet (if I remember how the YA section of my public library used to be arranged), and that the title had a word in it that was for some reason embarrassing to a 10-12 year old.
Thank you and GODSPEED!


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Claire Berslow | 108 comments Do you remember anything about the cover?
Was it set in the present or future?
Aside from it being a female MC, it made me think of "Saint Iggy" by K. L. Going


Stacy | 5 comments I can't remember the cover, and it was definitely a present day setting.


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Claire Berslow | 108 comments Narrated in first person?


Stacy | 5 comments I'm leaning towards first, but I can't be certain. I'm like 70% thinking it was first.


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Adele | 1438 comments Is it Hard Time Hard Time by Julian F. Thompson


Stacy | 5 comments Holy crap yes it is you've blown my mind! OMG! I knew there was a weird doll! I've been looking endlessly for this book for YEARS you don't even know, thank you so much!


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Stacy | 5 comments You COULD say I've had a HARD TIME looking for it :D


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Adele | 1438 comments LOL - good one. I've read a bunch of Julian Thompson's books and your description totally made me think of him, so well done!


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