Reyes McKenzie runs a gym in a run-down part of town where he teaches self-defense and gathers information on illegal activities for his family to investigate. When Kennedy Brooks joins his gym, his concentration is blown to hell. He's never seen a woman work so hard to be lethal...and he wonders wh
Stronger Than You Know
β Scribed by Jolene Perry
- Book ID
- 111936089
- Publisher
- Albert Whitman Company
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 296 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781497697911
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
After police intervention, fifteen-year-old Joy has finally escaped the trailer where she once lived with her mother and survived years of confinement and abuse. Now living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in a comfortable house, sheβs sure sheβll never belong. Wracked by panic attacks, afraid to talk to anyone at her new school, Joyβs got a whole list of reasons why sheβs crazy. With immense courage, Joy finds friends and grows closer to her new family. But just when hope is taking hold, she learns she must testify in her motherβs trial. Can she face her old life without losing her way in the new one? Will she ever truly belong in a world that seems too normal to be real?
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