Name: Leaving Paradise
Brand: Flux
SKU: 9780738710181
Price: 11.99 GBP
Availability: InStock

Leaving Paradise

10th Anniversary Edition

By (author): Simone Elkeles

Published by Flux

In Stock

£12.99

£11.99

Published: 08-Apr-2007
ISBN: 9780738710181

Paperback
312 Pages

Subjects:
General fiction (Children's / Teenage)

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Nothing has been the same since Caleb Becker left a party drunk, got behind the wheel, and hit Maggie Armstrong. Even after months of painful physical therapy, Maggie walks with a limp. Her social life is nil and a scholarship to study abroad--her chance to escape everyone and their pitying stares--has been canceled. After a year in juvenile jail, Caleb's free . . . if freedom means endless nagging from a transition coach and the prying eyes of the entire town. Coming home should feel good, but his family and ex-girlfriend seem like strangers. Caleb and Maggie are outsiders, pigeon-holed as "criminal" and "freak." Then the truth emerges about what really happened the night of the accident and, once again, everything changes. It's a bleak and tortuous journey for Caleb and Maggie, yet they end up finding comfort and strength from a surprising source: each other.

Simone Elkeles is the author of Leaving Paradise and four other Flux novels, including How to Ruin Your Summer Vacation and How to Ruin Your Boyfriend's Repuation. She is also the author of the New York Times bestselling Rules of Attraction (Walker). A popular speaker at libraries around the country, when the author is not writing she TiVos reality television and watches teen movies. She lives near Chicago with her family and two dogs.

"Elkeles writes convincingly about family tensions, retreating from painful reality, and teens outgrowing their old skins." --School Library Journal