Burnout

Zusatztext "The novel is gripping and will keep readers glued to their seats! wanting to know if Nan will ever remember what really happened on that terrifying night." --SLJ ! October 2011 Informationen zum Autor Adrienne Maria Vrettos grew up on a mountain in southern California, where she rode dirt bikes and made a mean double-mud pie. Her first novel, Skin , was named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, and a New York Public Library Top 100 Books for Reading and Sharing selection. Her second novel, Sight , was an ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers and a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. She is also the author of The Exile of Gigi Lane and Burnout . Adrienne lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York, and you can visit her online at AdrienneMariaVrettos.com. Klappentext Months after coming out of alcohol and drug rehab! high-school student Nan wakes up on the subway the day after Halloween wearing a torn Halloween costume! her long hair cut! and "HELP ME" scrawled across her chest! feeling sick and having no idea how she got there. Burnout CHAPTER 1 TODAY I wake up falling. I am falling fast, away from myself, but when my body should slap against the ground, it isn’t the ground at all, but black water that swallows me whole, and the last thing I see is my own face staring up at me before the water sucks me down. I have the weirdest dreams when I’m sober. I wake up listening. I hear the Tick come into my bedroom, and I know when I open my eyes, I am going to see him kneeling by my bed, wearing his Halloween vampire teeth and smelling like little-boy sleep, wet-lipped with stifled laughter, waiting for me to wake up and pour him a bowl of Cap’n Crunch for breakfast. He will poke me and whisper, “Nan, are you dead again?” I wake up freezing, and now I am getting tired of this and want to wake up for real. This dream isn’t even a dream; it’s a memory in the shape of a dream. I am at the deep end of a drained pool in Connecticut. It’s early spring, and I am freezing. I’ve slept on a long patio-chair cushion covered with flowers the color of orange sorbet. There’s a matching cushion on top of me; a stiff, unforgiving blanket. I blink my eyes against the too-bright sky. It smells like dead leaves and cold and something else. My feet lie in an ice-crusted black soup of rotting things. I roll over on my side and try to throw up, but there’s nothing in my stomach. From the look of the mess next to me, I lost it all last night. I will never, ever drink again. I think I might still be drunk. Nan! Seemy yells, laughing, from over the side of the pool. She’s wearing a Santa hat that’s too big for her little pixie head. What the hell! Patrick told you to sleep in his sister’s room! I push the cushion off and sit up. What feels like a tsunami-size wave of dizziness crashes over me, and I close my eyes before it can flip me upside down and drown me. When I open my eyes I am staring at my hands in my lap. They are red with cold, except for my knuckles, which are chapped and white. Nan! Seemy yells again, not laughing this time. Who’s Patrick? I finally ask, pulling my feet out of the water and shaking them off. I am. I look up, and the kid is vaguely familiar, with the sort of stupid face Seemy always falls for. Ugh, I groan aloud when I recognize him. That kid? I remember him from last night, this douchy kid from the suburbs that Seemy insisted we bring back to the carriage house. She threw a freaking tantrum when Toad and I, in a rare moment of agreement, told her the...

Product details

• Authors: Adrienne Maria Vrettos
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 14 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 13.09.2011, delayed
• EAN: 9781416994695
• ISBN: 978-1-4169-9469-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Subject: Children's and young people's books