Dessen, Sarah.
Lock and key / - New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2008. - 422 pages ; 22 cm.
When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others.
A Junior Library Guild selection
067001088X (hardcover) 9780670010882 (hardcover) 9780142414729 (pbk.)
2007025370
Abandoned children--Juvenile fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology)--Juvenile fiction.
Families--Juvenile fiction.
Child abuse--Juvenile fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Juvenile fiction.
Emotional problems--Juvenile fiction.
PZ7.D455 / Lo 2008
[Fic]
Lock and key / - New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2008. - 422 pages ; 22 cm.
When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others.
A Junior Library Guild selection
067001088X (hardcover) 9780670010882 (hardcover) 9780142414729 (pbk.)
2007025370
Abandoned children--Juvenile fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology)--Juvenile fiction.
Families--Juvenile fiction.
Child abuse--Juvenile fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Juvenile fiction.
Emotional problems--Juvenile fiction.
PZ7.D455 / Lo 2008
[Fic]