Van Heugten, Antoinette.
Saving Max / - Don Mills, Ont. : MIRA, c2010. - 376 pages ; 21 cm.
Includes reading group guide.
Max Parkman, autistic and whip-smart, emotionally fragile and aggressive, is perfect in his mother's eyes-- until he's accused of murder. Attorney Danielle Parkman knows her teenage son Max's behavior has been getting worse-- using drugs and lashing out. But she can't accept the diagnosis she receives at a top-notch adolescent psychiatric facility that her son is deeply disturbed and dangerous. But then she finds Max, unconscious and bloodied, beside a patient who has been brutally stabbed to death.
9780778329633 (pbk.) : $14.95 0778329631 (pbk.)
Mothers and sons--Fiction.
Autistic children--Fiction.
Teenage boys--Fiction.
Mental illness--Diagnosis--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
PS3622.A585493 / S38 2010
813/.6
Saving Max / - Don Mills, Ont. : MIRA, c2010. - 376 pages ; 21 cm.
Includes reading group guide.
Max Parkman, autistic and whip-smart, emotionally fragile and aggressive, is perfect in his mother's eyes-- until he's accused of murder. Attorney Danielle Parkman knows her teenage son Max's behavior has been getting worse-- using drugs and lashing out. But she can't accept the diagnosis she receives at a top-notch adolescent psychiatric facility that her son is deeply disturbed and dangerous. But then she finds Max, unconscious and bloodied, beside a patient who has been brutally stabbed to death.
9780778329633 (pbk.) : $14.95 0778329631 (pbk.)
Mothers and sons--Fiction.
Autistic children--Fiction.
Teenage boys--Fiction.
Mental illness--Diagnosis--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
PS3622.A585493 / S38 2010
813/.6