Freefall

Zusatztext "In a genre overloaded with bubble-gum-pink teendom and paranormal dark fantasy full of fangs and fur! Mindi Scott’s debut novel Freefall stands out as fresh! realistic! young adult fiction. Highlighting the dark (and yet acutely relevant) side of high school today! Scott brings to the table heavy issues that are impacting teens with a storyline that reads as real as life itself. With characters that ring true and a journey that proves honest! Freefall is no doubt sure to be one of the best contemporary young adult books of the year." -- New York Journal of Books Informationen zum Autor Scott Mindi Klappentext How do you come back from the point of no return? Seth McCoy was the last person to see his best friend, Isaac, alive, and the first to find him dead. It was just another night, just another party, just another time when Isaac drank too much and passed out on the lawn. Only this time, Isaac didn't wake up.Convinced that his own actions led to his friend's death, Seth is torn between turning his life around . . . or losing himself completely.Then he meets Rosetta: so beautiful and so different from everything and everyone he's ever known. But Rosetta has secrets of her own, and Seth soon realizes he isn't the only one who needs saving . . . SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 8:19 P.M. This was Daniel’s deal. He’d taken the order, contacted a supplier, and set it all up. I was just the sucker he’d roped into driving him for the actual delivery. Which meant, technically, I was also the guy who had the police cruiser riding his ass through town. Just like always. “You know, Dick,” Daniel said, “I’m pretty sure you bring this cop bullshit on yourself.” “Oh yeah?” I kept the steering wheel as steady as I could and stole another glance in the rearview. All I could make out in the dusky darkness were bright headlights and the outline of the light bar on the cruiser’s roof, which—so far—wasn’t flashing. “How do I bring it on myself? By hauling you around everywhere in my brother’s unlucky car?” “No,” Daniel said. “By driving like a paranoid old lady. You’ve got to blend in better on the road. And go faster. You might not realize this, but cops pay close attention when people are under the speed limit too.” “I know that.” What I didn’t know was why Daniel thought he was some kind of speed-estimating expert; the Mustang’s speedometer was always stuck at zero whether I was at a dead stop or cruising the highway. I looked in my side-view mirror. From what I could tell, the cop had no plans to stop tailgating me anytime soon. The experience was not doing wonders for my hangover headache or crazy-nervous heartbeat. “You’ve got to quit looking at him,” Daniel said between swigs of his Jack and Coke. “And take some deep breaths or something. The street you want is coming up next left.” The moment of truth. I flipped on my blinker, and then eased into a pretty smooth turn, even with all the weight Daniel had piled in the back. I peeked in the rearview again, trying to be casual about it. To my relief the cruiser hadn’t followed. We were in the clear for now. A minute later we hit the crest of Ray Fitch Hill—“Rich Bitch Hill” to those of us unlucky enough to live by the river—where huge houses sat on square, perfect lawns with clipped hedges and lit-up flower beds. Amazing, really, the ritziness of this part of town. Most of the cars alone were worth three, maybe even four, times as much as the single-wide mobile homes Daniel and I called home. Daniel directed me to the place, and as I backed into the driveway, Pete Zimmer, the Kenburn High football god himself, was waiting on the sidewalk with two other jocks. They all looked alike with their buzz-cut hair and T-shirts that said, I AM COLLEGE, I’D DO ME, and SEXY NEVER LEFT. “Just let me han...

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• Autori: Mindi Scott
• Editore: Simon & Schuster USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Raccomandazione d'eta': 14 a 17 anni
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 05.10.2010
• EAN: 9781442402782
• ISBN: 978-1-4424-0278-2
• Pagine: 288
• Categoria: Libri per bambini e per ragazzi