Seventeen-year-old Christy, sad since her father's death, ignored by her mother, and abused by her drug-dealing half-brother, finds friends who help her learn to stand up for herself and move past the old hurts and fears that are keeping her down.
year: 2007, 2008
call number/section: 1000
subjects: family life, fiction, self-esteem, high schools, family, flint (mich.), fiction, problem families, flint, juvenile fiction, drug traffic, incest, juvenile fiction, flin, sexual abuse victims, dysfunctional families, schools, school stories, family problems
Editions
Jones, Patrick
Seventeen-year-old Christy wants only to finish high school and escape her Flint, Michigan, home, where she cooks, cleans, cares for her niece, and tries to fend off her half-brother, a drug dealer who has been abusing her since she was eleven.
Schools: 1
Jones, Patrick
Walker (2007)
Seventeen-year-old Christy, sad since her father's death, ignored by her mother, and abused by her drug-dealing half-brother, finds friends who help her learn to stand up for herself and move past the old hurts and fears that are keeping her down.
Schools: 1
Jones, Patrick
Walker (2008)
Seventeen-year-old Christy, sad since her father's death, ignored by her mother, and abused by her drug-dealing half-brother, finds friends who help her learn to stand up for herself and move past the old hurts and fears that are keeping her down.
Schools: 4
Jones, Patrick
Seventeen-year-old Christy, sad since her father's death, ignored by her mother, and abused by her drug-dealing half-brother, finds friends who help her learn to stand up for herself and move past the old hurts and fears that are keeping her down.
Schools: 2