num_pages: 280
description: A riveting portrait of life after abuse from an award-winning novelist.Sixteen-Year-Old Jace Witherspoon arrives at the doorstep of his estranged brother Christian with a re-landscaped face (courtesy of his fathers fist) $3.84 and a secret.He tries to move on going for new friends a new school and a new job but all his changes cant make him forget what he left behindhis mother who is still trapped with his dad and his ex-girlfriend who is keeping his secret.At least so far.Worst of all Jace realizes that if he really wants to move forward he may first have to do what scares him He may have to go back. Award-winning novelist Swati Avasthi has created a riveting and remarkably nuanced portrait of what happens after . After youve said enough after youve run after youve made the splithow do you begin to live again? Readers wont be able to put this intense page-turner down.
language: English
title: Split
publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers