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Saldin, Erin
2 Reviews
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YA
In contrast to the weekenders who flock to their Oregon resort town, Ana, Erik, Georgie, and Davis are "Dead Enders," year-round residents and no strangers to the poverty and violence beneath the town's touristy veneer. Bound together by witnessing an arson, the four teens narrate their interlocking stories in first-person narratives of elegant prose with careful pacing.
Reviewer: Norah Piehl
(2)
YA
Lida attends the Alice Marshall School, a correctional boot camp in the Idaho wilds. She keeps her secrets close, gradually revealing them in a first-person narrative penned two years after she left the school. Saldin presents the complex, layered terrain of relationships that develop among teens who share cabins and cigarettes but know only the bare minimum about one anothers' former lives.
Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann
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January, 2012
2 reviews
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