American girls

Description:

Anna is a fifteen-year-old girl slouching toward adulthood. And she's had an excruciating year. To top it all off, she's got new stepparents, a new baby brother, and a new school to look forward to in the fall. So, she "borrows" her family's credit card and runs away to LA to crash with her half-sister. But in addition to not being wanted back by her parents, at least not immediately, Anna has to work to pay her way home. Her sister's creepy ex-boyfriend is directing an indie film inspired by girls who come to LA and disappear, literally or metaphorically, and he hires Anna for a seriously macabre research project--to research the murderous Manson girls.

subjects: Runaways,  Motion picture industry,  Juvenile fiction,  Stepsisters,  Self-realization,  Children's fiction,  Motion picture industry, fiction,  Runaways, fiction,  Los angeles (calif.), fiction,  Runaway teenagers,  Fiction,  Girls & Women,  Family,  Alternative Family,  Performing Arts,  Film

Places: Los Angeles (Calif.)