num_pages: 244
description: I found out two things today. One I think Im dying. And two my brother is a perv.So begins the diary of 14-year-old Jenna Samuels who is having a very bad eighth-grade year. Her single mother spends all day in bed. Dad vanished when she was eight. Her 16-year-old brother Casey tries to hold together whats left of the family by working two after-school jobs difficult as hes stoned all the time. To make matters worse Jenna is sick. When she collapses one day Casey tries to race her to the hospital in their beat-up Prius and crashes instead.Jenna wakes up in the ER to find Casey beside her. Beatified. Literally. The flab and zits? Gone. Before long Jenna figures out that Casey didnt survive the accident at all. Hes an A-word. (She cant bring herself to utter the truth.) Soon they discover that Jenna isnt just dying: shes being poisoned. And Casey has been sent back to help solve the mystery that not only holds the key to her survival but also to their mothers mysterious depression and fathers disappearance.
language: English
title: The Sweet Dead Life
publisher: Soho Teen