Saving Max /
By: Van Heugten, Antoinette
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BookPublisher: Don Mills, Ont. : MIRA, c2010Description: 376 pages ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780778329633 (pbk.) :; 0778329631 (pbk.).Subject(s): Mothers and sons -- Fiction | Autistic children -- Fiction | Teenage boys -- Fiction | Mental illness -- Diagnosis -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- FictionGenre/Form: Psychological fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction.DDC classification: 813/.6 Summary: 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.
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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.
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