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Chadwick, a former middle school teacher, gives up his job after the drug-related death of his daughter to dedicate himself to rescuing troubled teens, but he is forced to confront the ghosts of his past when he becomes involved in the life of Mallory, a fifteen-year-old wanted for questioning in a brutal murder--who just happens to be the child his daughter was babysitting the night she died.

Trying to find money so that she and her little sister can escape their abusive foster parents, Ana enters a mysterious contest that will award the winner ten million dollars if she completes ten secret tasks assigned by the Benefactor.

"Maiv is a model daughter, a caring older sister, a top student-the responsible one.

Yasmin, a high school misfit who desperately wants to fit in, notices a strange, sinister-looking man stalking Alice, the most popular girl in the school.

""[Evokes] both Jeanette Winterson and Ian McEwan. an elegiac and uplifting novel about the indissoluble bonds between mothers and daughters, and a reminder of how the imagination can set you free.