Kelly, Hannah's older sister, is pretty sure it all started at the science fair, where Hannah flew into a rage at her best friend, Kyle. She won't have anything to do with him anymore. Instead she's hanging out with a new, rough crowd of friends, ditching school and mouthing off to teachers when she does attend.
Soon Hannah is sneaking out at night and coming home drunk. Then the police are bringing her home and she's charged with breaking and entering. Hannah is spinning out of control, destroying her already fragile family.
In Hannah's secret box, Kelly discovers fragments of clues ? notes from friends, letters, school reports, postcards, newspaper clippings. She begins to piece together the reason behind Hannah's shattered life. But nothing prepares her for Hannah's anguished explosion at their father, and the devastating secret she reveals.
The family does their best to pick up the pieces, but what will it take for Hannah to find herself again? And will her new friends let her go that easily?
"Horrocks doesn't hold back in the glimpse she allows us of the dark alleys waiting for teens determined to find them."
— The Edmonton Journal
"Told by her older sister, Kelly, Hannah's gripping story is a nail-biting page-turner right from the opening paragraph."
— Canadian Book Review Annual
"Anita Horrocks is a promising new novelist, able to combine a suspenseful plot with a thoughtful, sometimes poetic, exploration of the concerns and anxieties of teenage readers. . . A compassionate and gripping story."
— Quill and Quire
Winner, 2000 Red Maple Children's Choice Award, Ontario Library Association
1999-2000 Our Choice Star Selection, Canadian Children's Book Centre
On the New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age List, 2000
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