*****One of the five finalist for 2006 National Book Club Award*****
How do you know if you are having a bad day? How bad can a day be, is it a day that your mother is completely crazy and comes after you with a kitchen knife for sneeking a cookie? Is it a day that your mother goes out at night for a date and doesn't come home for days, leaving you to fend for yourself and your two younger sisters? What kind of man helps a young child in a convience store when his parent is being abusive? When Matt sees Murdock in the store he knows he needs to find him, if he helped a strange maybe he could help Matt and his sisters deal with Nikki. It is unfortunate when Nikki gets in the way with Murdock, and she tries to develop a relationship with him and it ends in disaster just like everything else that Nikki touches. Will anyone step in to help these poor children survive their mother, will Murdock, Ben or Aunt Bobbie see what Nikki is doing to her children? There is one thing that this book will teach you, it will teach you to survive and only those who survive get to tell the story.
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Reading Level 13-18 Years Old
Penguin Group, 2006
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