The girl on the run
Record details
- ISBN: 9781940610696
- ISBN: 1940610699
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Physical Description:
259 pages ; 23 cm
print - Edition: First North American publication.
- Publisher: Hoboken, NJ : Polis Books, 2016.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Published as Run in 2014 by Hot Key Books. |
Target Audience Note: | Ages 13-18. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Fathers Crimes against Fiction Fathers and daughters Fiction Murder Fiction |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Erlanger Branch | YA OLSEN G (Text) | 33126020687855 | YA Fiction | Available | - |
- School Library Journal Reviews : SLJ Reviews 2016 February
Gr 10 UpâRylee comes home from school one day to hear the water running. She assumes her younger brother has left it on, and goes into the bathroom to shut it off. Then she finds her stepfather lying on the floor with a knife sticking out of his chest and her mother gone. Readers discover that Rylee and her family have been on the run for almost all of her life. The teen has yet to realize how deep the lies that she has been told go. When she follows the clues her mother has left, she learns that her real father is a serial rapist and killerâand her mother is the victim who got away. Rylee believes her mother has just seven days to live before he will kill her. Though the story line should grab readers, the plot just does not hold together. The misogynistic story is poorly written and unbelievable, and at times it is difficult to know which character is speaking the dialogue. Readers are just never sure why exactly it is that Rylee's motherâand her stepfatherâwent along with her violent father for almost two decades. Teens looking for a page-turning story of survival would be better off with April Henry's The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die (Holt, 2013) or Gail Giles's Dead Girls Don't Write Letters (Roaring Book, 2003). VERDICT Not recommended for purchase.âDeanna McDaniel, Genoa Middle School, OH
[Page 104]. (c) Copyright 2016 Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. - School Library Journal Reviews : SLJ Reviews 2016 March
Gr 10 UpâRylee comes home from school one day to hear the water running. She assumes her younger brother has left it on, and goes into the bathroom to shut it off. Then she finds her stepfather lying on the floor with a knife sticking out of his chest and her mother gone. Readers discover that Rylee and her family have been on the run for almost all of her life. The teen has yet to realize how deep the lies that she has been told go. When she follows the clues her mother has left, she learns that her real father is a serial rapist and killerâand her mother is the victim who got away. Rylee believes her mother has just seven days to live before he will kill her. Though the story line should grab readers, the plot just does not hold together. The misogynistic story is poorly written and unbelievable, and at times it is difficult to know which character is speaking the dialogue. Readers are just never sure why exactly it is that Rylee's motherâand her stepfatherâwent along with her violent father for almost two decades. Teens looking for a page-turning story of survival would be better off with April Henry's The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die (Holt, 2013) or Gail Giles's Dead Girls Don't Write Letters (Roaring Book, 2003). VERDICT Not recommended for purchase.âDeanna McDaniel, Genoa Middle School, OH
[Page 104]. (c) Copyright 2016 Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.