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Gr 9-Up Sandpiper Hollow Ragsdale, 15, is on a sexual power trip, engaging in brief hookups for fellatio. When Derek, one of several rejected boys, returns in a rage to torment Piper and her family, she finds an unlikely ally in Walker, a solitary young man of few words who habitually roams the roads of her Massachusetts town. Piper and Walker (whose real name, she finds out much later, is Aidan) awkwardly begin a platonic relationship of truth telling about their lives. Both are outsiders; she is est...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Self-described black sheep Piper writes poems compulsively: they "spurt out" of her, and then she feels better about herself. Her soon-to-be-remarried mother and "toothpick twin" sister and stepsister are the perfect family (minus her presence, that is); her womanizing father hasn't been able to look at her since adolescence hit and her "giant gazongas...scared the crap out of him"; and one ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More