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Breaking the Pattern 1-3

By the author of Tattooed Teardrops, winner of the Top Fiction Award, In the Margins Committee, 2016, this poignant account of the lives of Henry, Sandy, and Bobby as they struggle to break free from the cycles of abuse, poverty, and mental illness that plague their families will touch your heart and challenge you to look at youth crime in another light.

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Sandy and other YA Books

I am very excited to release Sandy, Breaking the Pattern, book #2 in the Breaking the Pattern Series out into the world today.

If you read Henry, Breaking the Pattern, then you have already met Sandy and been intrigued by her having grown up in a life of crime and her relationships with her exploitive father and her half brother, who Henry met in juvie.

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Between the Cracks 4-6

Chloe’s story is horrifying yet hopeful, a harrowing read for anyone who works with children from an abusive background, in foster care, or situations where there are no responsible, loving adults to care for them and guide them, resulting in young adults who have no idea how to love themselves or others, or how to

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Excerpt from Beautiful Boy

Last week I read Beautiful Boy by David Sheff. This is a tough book, a memoire of his son’s addiction too meth. If you have a family member with an addiction, you’ll find a friend in Sheff. He puts it all out there, the guilt, the worry and anxiety, imagining what might have happened to him every time he disappeared. He goes through the stages of not knowing, telling himself it wasn’t so bad, and then Nic’s rapid downward spiral and cycles of recovery and relapse.

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