num_pages: 304
description: There isnt much worth living for in Gypsum Missourior Trashtown as the rich kids call the run-down neighborhood where sixteen-year-old Hailey Tarbell lives. Hailey figures shell never belongnot with the popular kids at school not with the rejects not even with her cruel sickly grandmother who deals drugs out of their basement. Hailey never knew her dead mother and she has no idea who her father was but at least she has her four-year-old foster brother Chub. Once she turns eighteen Hailey plans to take Chub far from Gypsum and start a new life where no one can find them. But when a classmate is injured in gym class Hailey discovers a gift for healing that she never knew she possessedand that she cannot ignore. Not only can she heal she can bring the dying back to life. Confused by her powers Hailey searches for answers but finds only more questions until a mysterious visitor shows up at Grams house claiming to be Haileys aunt Prairie. There are people who will stop at nothing to keep Hailey in Trashtown living out a legacy of despair and suffering. But when Prairie saves both Hailey and Chub from armed attackers who invade Grams house in the middle of the night Hailey must decide where to place her trust. Will Prairies past and the long-buried secret that caused her to leave Gypsum years earlier ruin them all? Because as Hailey will soon find out their power to heal is just the beginning. This gripping novel from thriller writer Sophie Littlefield blazes a trail from small-town Missouri to the big city as Hailey battles an evil greater than she ever imagined while discovering strengths she never knew she had.From the Hardcover edition.
language: English
title: Banished
publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers