High school senior Rooney Harris's life gets complicated when her mother loses her job and spends all her time with a cultish group who claim aliens will be arriving on November 17th to take believers to a new world paradise on an alien planet. Rooney does her best to keep herself, her younger brother--also a believer--and her mother intact, but as the deadline approaches, and their financial situation becomes more desperate, Rooney is faced with abandoning her own dreams to support her family, and keep her mother's mental illness from ruining all their futures.
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call number/section: 1000
subjects: end of the world, juvenile fiction, cults, mothers and daughters, brothers and sisters, dysfunctional families, fiction, family problems, mother-daughter relationship, siblings, family life, brother-sisters relationship, domestic fiction
Editions
van Dam, Katrin
"Senior year at high school is going to be hard enough for Rooney Harris, desperate to get into a good college and away from her small town, but things get tougher when she ends up as the sole support for herself and her younger brother because of their mother's obsession with the Next World Society, a cult that believes they will be whisked away to a new world paradise on November 17"--Provided by publisher.
Schools: 13
van Dam, Katrin
High school senior Rooney Harris's life gets complicated when her mother loses her job and spends all her time with a cultish group who claim aliens will be arriving on November 17th to take believers to a new world paradise on an alien planet. Rooney does her best to keep herself, her younger brother--also a believer--and her mother intact, but as the deadline approaches, and their financial situation becomes more desperate, Rooney is faced with abandoning her own dreams to support her family, and keep her mother's mental illness from ruining all their futures.
Schools: 1