Compromised

Description:

With her con-man father in prison, fifteen-year-old Maya sets out from Reno, Nevada, for Boise, Idaho, hoping to stay out of foster care by finding an aunt she never knew existed, but a fellow runaway complicates all of her scientifically-devised plans.

subjects: Fifteen-year-old girls,  Young adult fiction,  Children of prisoners,  Family problems,  Fiction,  Runaways,  Voyages and travels,  Tourette syndrome,  Runaway teenagers,  First person narratives,  Foster home care,  Survival,  Tourette syndrome teenagers,  Cautionary tales and verse,  Teenage abuse victims,  Self-discovery in teenage girls,  Dysfunctional families,  Juvenile fiction,  Children's fiction,  Runaways, fiction,  Voyages and travels, fiction,  Family life, fiction,  Foster home care, fiction,  Families