Book description
Four talented teenagers are traumatized--coping with grief, surviving date rape, facing the anxiety of standardized tests and the neglect of self-absorbed adults--and they'll do anything to escape the pressure. They'll even build an invisible helicopter, to fly far away to a place where everyone will understand them...until they learn the…
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This is the story of four teenagers and their journey to cope with the anxieties of being a teenager, mixed with recovering from traumatic events.
It is such an unusual book that it defies explanation. The best thing to do is to pick it up and read it for yourself. I found it confusing in a delightful way – the mixture of reality and dreamscape is captivating and leaves you wondering what is real and what is imaginary.
This book is chaotic and intense and left me feeling a bit dizzy, but I think if I had read it when…
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