It must be great to have such great clothes and the best phone and such a great house to live in. Well, it might be if you didn't have to report every single penny you spend to your stepfather. It might be if you aren't punished for spilling coke on the white rug by having to get a job and give him all your money. Is this normal or is this abuse? That's Arielle's life. Kofi is walking a fine line trying to get into MIT and battling an addiction to oxycontin that his doctor has given him for the pain of the broken arm he got in the hazing Leap of Faith ritual that killed Josh. Everyone is struggling to find the right path and a sense of what is important and what is of value.
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Jericho, November, Arielle, and their friends must step up big time to prevent a deadly school tragedy in this harrowing conclusion to Sharon M. Draper’s Jericho Trilogy.
Arielle Gresham, disliked and mistrusted by most of the students at her school, has a secret past, an unbelievably complicated present, and a shaky future. But no one knows or cares because she has managed to alienate anyone who could help her. She tries to cope with problems at school, but difficulties at home almost break her spirit.
Then, as the school tries to deal with an outbreak of false fire alarms and a series of thefts, and Arielle discovers that one classmate is addicted to prescription drugs and another is a victim on vicious online bullying. Outward appearances are seldom what they seem to be—everyone is dealing with something, it’s all a matter of how you deal with it, Arielle is figuring out.
But one kid can’t, and as he starts to crack, could he take the school tumbling down with him?
A hero is needed. But what makes a hero?---from the publisher
