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The Home for Wayward Girls

✍ Scribed by Marcia Bradley

Book ID: 111356808
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Weight: 141 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780063276055

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✦ Synopsis

Growing up in the 1990s, a young girl escapes her abusive parents -and the "ranch" they ran for "bad" girls--and becomes an advocate for teen runaways in this harrowing and heartfelt novel for fans of Joanna Goodman and Lisa Wingate.

While other adolescent girls are listening to grunge rock or swooning over boy bands and movie stars, Loretta knows little of life beyond the Home for Wayward Girls, the secluded ranch where her parents run a program designed to "correct" teen girls' "bad behavior." Some new residents arrive with their moms and dads, while other are accompanied by transporters--people paid to forcibly deliver these "problem" teens--girls caught swearing, smoking, drinking, or kissing. Many are failed runaways desperate to leave their controlling and sometimes brutal homes. Few have any idea of the suffering that lies ahead.

Loretta witnesses firsthand how the adults use abusive discipline to crush these young women's...

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