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Wild Roses
 
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Awards and Nominations

  • ALA Best Books for Young Adults Nominee
  • Bank Street Best Books of the Year
  • Kansas State Reading Circle Senior High Titles
  • NYPL "Books for the Teen Age"
  • Pennsylvania School Librarian Association (PSLA) "Top Ten (Or So)" Young Adult Books
  • Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Nominee
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Description

Seventeen-year-old Cassie Morgan lives with a time bomb (a.k.a. her stepfather, Dino Cavalli). To the public, Dino is a world-renowned violin player and composer. To Cassie, he's an erratic, self-centered bully. And he's getting worse: He no longer sleeps, and he grows increasingly paranoid. Before, Cassie was angry. Now she is afraid.

Enter Ian Waters: a brilliant young violinist, and Dino's first-ever student. The minute Cassie lays eyes on Ian she knows she's doomed. Cassie thought she understood that love could bring pain, but this union will have consequences she could not have imagined.

In the end, only one thing becomes clear: In the world of insanity, nothing is sacred....

"Multifaceted and emotionally devastating."

-- School Library Journal, starred review
"Cassie's first-person narrative will sweep up readers, and her exploration of the fine line between madness and genius alternates between humor and painful truth."
-- Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Populated with delightfully oddball yet solidly real characters and shot full of genuine wit."
-- Kirkus Reviews