![]() ![]() Seventeen-year-old Charlie Davis, a white girl living on the margins, thinks she has little reason to live: her father drowned himself her bereft and abusive mother kicked her out her best friend, Ellis, is nearly brain dead after cutting too deeply and she's gone through unspeakable experiences living on the street. ![]() ![]() ![]() 14 & up)Īfter surviving a suicide attempt, a fragile teen isn't sure she can endure without cutting herself. The novel is rich with detail, and both the Brooklyn and Paris settings provide important grounding for the haunting and beautifully told story. Andi is brilliantly realized, complete and complex. Printz Honor winner Donnelly combines compelling historical fiction with a frank contemporary story. Soon, Alex’s life and struggles become as real and as painful for Andi as her own troubled life. But when she finds the 200-year-old diary of another teen, Alexandrine Paradis, she is plunged into the chaos of the French Revolution. She resists accompanying her work-obsessed father to Paris, especially after he places her mentally fragile mother in a hospital, but once there works in earnest on her senior thesis about an 18th-century French musician. Despite her brilliance, she has not been able to focus on anything except music since the death of her younger brother, which pushed the difficulties in her family to the breaking point. Andi Alpers, a 17-year-old music lover, is about to be expelled from her elite private school. ![]()
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