num_pages: 438
description: Critically acclaimed author Leah Thomas blends a small-town setting with the secrets of a long-ago crime in a compelling novel about breaking free from the past.In Samsboro Kentucky Kalyn Spence's name is inseparable from the brutal murder her father committed when he was a teenager. Forced to return to town Kalyn must attend school under a pseudonym . . . or face the lingering anger of Samsboro's citizens who refuse to forget the crime.Gus Peake has never had the luxury of redefining himself. A Samsboro native he's either known as the disabled kid because of his cerebral palsy or as the kid whose dad was murdered. Gus just wants to be known as himself.When Gus meets Kalyn her frankness is refreshing and they form a deep friendship. Until their families' pasts emerge. And when the accepted version of the truth is questioned Kalyn and Gus are caught in the center of a national uproar. Can they break free from a legacy of inherited lies and chart their own paths forward?.
language: English
title: Wild and Crooked
publisher: Bloomsbury YA