num_pages: 198
description:  If you do it right it can be a life. The hothouse the guys the glory. But just like that it can all go up in smoke. In the beginning it was strange ya know because of all that we had lost. But there was something about it that felt so good and so right too: I'm so proud of you Russ. We'll always be here for you man. Heroes don't pay for nothin' in this town. It was nonstop. The mayor shook my hand. Ladies sent food. I've never eaten so much baked ham in my life. And now? Now the phone won't stop ringing from the crazies ready to blame me. My mom has to cry herself to sleep. They take a firefighter a man and they pump him up so big. . . . But once they start taking it away from you they don't stop until they leave nothing on the bones. First they needed heroes then they needed blood.
language: English
title: Hothouse
publisher: HarperTeen