Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to fit in with the popular crowd on Hackett Island, and her mother's alcoholism until the enigmatic Lani Garver helps her get control of her life at the risk of his own.
Genres
- Alcoholism
- Cancer
- Emotional problems
- Fiction
- Homosexuality
- Islands
- Prejudices
- Patients
- Eating disorders in teenage girls
- Individuality in teenagers
- Friendship
- Eating disorders
- Sixteen-year-old girls
- Emotional problems of teenage girls
- Teenage children of alcoholics
- Homophobia
- Teenagers
- Peer pressure
- Child leukemia patients
- Children's fiction
- Homosexuality, fiction
- Prejudices, fiction
- Alcoholism, fiction
- Mental health
- Juvenile fiction
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