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BASED ON ACTUAL
EVENTS
My name is Cassidy
Connor and my parents hate me. Well, they can go to hell. After yet another
fight with my manipulative lawyer father and bible thumping mother, I disappear
onto Hollywood Blvd among the other street kids. Or so I thought. The cops pick
me up for a BS crime I didn't commit, and Dad announces the only way I can
avoid charges is to voluntarily admit myself into Oak Dale, a psych ward for
crazy teens. I don't belong there -- my parents are the real nut jobs --but
it's not like I have a choice.
At Oak Dale,
everyone is going on about the kid who just killed himself trying to escape.
How could they dump me in a place like this? I'm thrown in with my anorexic
roommate, Erin; foster care system victim, Gina; and pyromaniac Tony. Guess he
likes to light 'em up. All of us are unwanted baggage, here against our
will.
I quickly learn
only the strong survive Oak Dale -- and some of us won't make it out
alive.
Serita Stevens is
an established award winning writer of books and scripts, I was born in Chicago
and have always been a writer.
Jo
Schaffer was born and raised in the California Bay Area in a huge, creative
family. She is a YA novelist, speaker, writer at Patheos.com, Junior Literary
Agent with Gateway Literary, works in film production and is a Taekwondo black
belt.
She's a founding
member of Writers Cubed and co-founder of the Teen Author Boot Camp, one of the
largest conferences in the nation for youth ages 13-19. She and a crew of local
and international bestselling authors present writing workshops to hundreds of
attendees at the Utah-based conference as well as hundreds of others worldwide
who view the conference online.
Jo loves being
involved in anything that promotes literacy and family. She is passionate about
community, travel, books, music, healthy eating, classic films and martial
arts. Her brain is always spinning new ideas for books and sometimes she even
gets around to blogging.
Jo now lives in the
beautiful mountains of Utah with her filmmaker/artist husband, three strapping
sons and a blue-eyed cat named Smokey.
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