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Books > Children's & Educational > Life skills & personal awareness, general studies > Personal, health & social education (PHSE) > Body & health > General
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Kidnapped
(Hardcover)
Robert Louis Stevenson, Louis Rhead
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R537
Discovery Miles 5 370
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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14-year-old Max only has one person he can really talk to. Her name
is Ana - also known as anorexia, his eating disorder. Max writes to
Ana every day. She feeds on his fears, encouraging him to lose more
and more weight. For Christmas, Max gets an unusual present from
his older brother Robin: a geocache. He hides it in the forest near
their house, thrilled by the anonymity it gives him. Anyone can
leave Max a note - and soon, he gets one from the mysterious 'E'.
Could it be the Evie, the new girl at school, playing tricks on
him? In the midst of a family crisis, Max's eating disorder quickly
deteriorates. Ana pulls him further and further away from his
family and friends, until he feels totally alone. Can anyone help
him find a way out? Drawing on debut author Samuel Pollen's own
experiences, this is an unforgettable, uplifting story of one boy's
battle with anorexia.
It's Sam Pettigrew's last year of high school. And he's spending it
figuring out how, at age seventeen, he is supposed to care for his
baby son, Max.
Max wasn't part of the plan. He wasn't even part of the backup
plan. But he's here now, and Sam is attending an alternative high
school with other teen parents like himself. Talk about a wake-up
call. But Sam is determined to make it work, to show everyone --
his dad, his new girlfriend, himself -- that he has what it takes
to be a good dad.
Trading footballs for diaper bags and college brochures for
feeding schedules, Sam gives fatherhood his best shot. Only no one
told him it would be this hard. What if his best isn't good enough?
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