Name: Almost Home
ISBN: 9781423106425

Jessica Blank

Seven unforgettable teens who live on the streets of Los Angeles and who each have their own hard-luck story, form their own dysfunctional family, complete with love and belonging, abuse and betrayal.

Almost Home

Jessica 

Full review/potential spoilers alert: http://bookgirl.co.vu/post/7338009088...

In Jessica Blank’s debut novel, Almost Home, she weaves together seven individual lives and proves that you can sometimes find a family, not based on blood or location, in even the most unexpected places. In this case, seven teenagers find each other as they abandon their life for one tragic tale or another and find themselves living on the streets of L.A.

You will often feel pity for these characters as their lives are explained. There will be heart breaking moments that feel like someone has kicked you in the stomach, and there will be moments in which you find yourself cringing at the tragedy of each individuals stories of the past or present on the street. If one thing, this novel is brutally honest in the way Blank carves each characters story as they try to figure things out for themselves in a way that many teenagers will never have to.

It's got all the makings of a perfect novel targeted at young adults and certainly is on my recommendations.

Almost Home

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