Historical FictionYoung Adult
A 15-year-old girl navigates first love, family upheaval, and a 1970s boarding school for troubled teens amid addiction and fractured relationships.
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A 15-year-old girl navigates first love, family upheaval, and a 1970s boarding school for troubled teens amid addiction and fractured relationships.
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"Awesome and revealing."* Fifteen-year-old Kate Steiner is not sure why she is suddenly boarding at an East Coast school for troubled kids, though there is evidence that her lawyer parents are having marital problems. It is the mid-1970's, and at the progressive school where she has landed, Kate is initiated into a stratified society inhabited by kids who fell through the cracks. "We were delinquents, addicts, mental cases, orphans and kids from broken homes." Kate must grapple with moral ambigu...
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Sexual content
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First boyfriend and doomed adolescent romance; coming-of-age intimacy
Violence & gore
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Profanity
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Substance use
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Central drug addiction; boyfriend spirals; school full of addicts
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Light 1970s social backdrop; progressive school and broken families
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Broken homes, parental marital strife, and troubled youth referenced
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