Bleeding Violet

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Hanna simply wants to be loved. With a head plagued by hallucinations, a medicine cabinet full of pills, and a closet stuffed with frilly, violet dresses, Hanna’s tired of being the outcast, the weird girl, the freak. So she runs away to Portero, Texas, in search of a new home.

But Portero is a stranger town than Hanna expects. As she tries to make a place for herself, she discovers dark secrets that would terrify any normal soul. Good thing for Hanna, she’s far from normal. And when a crazy girl meets an even crazier town, only two things are certain: Anything can happen and no one is safe.
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  • Simon Pulse | 
  • 464 pages | 
  • ISBN 9781416998662 | 
  • January 2010 | 
  • Grades 9 and up | 
  • Lexile HL710
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Chapter One

The truck driver let me off on Lamartine, on the odd side of the street. I felt odd too, standing in the town where my mother lived. For the first seven years of my life, we hadn’t even lived on the same continent, and now she waited only a few houses away.

Unreal.

Why didn’t you have the truck driver let you off right in front of her house? Poppa’s voice echoed peevishly in my head, as if he were the one having to navigate alone in the dark.

“I have to creep up on her,” I whispered, unwilling to disturb the extreme quiet of midnight, “otherwise my heart...

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A spine-tingling debut dark fantasy! Crazy never looked this beautiful.

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Dia Reeves

Q. how did you come to write Bleeding Violet?

A. Other people get inspiration from dreams and unusual life events, but not me. I just sat down one day and decided to write a story about a "crazy" girl, who really wasn't all that crazy. Ta da!

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