Living on impulse
By: by Cara Haycak.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Dutton Children's Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780525421375
Subjects: Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction; Family problems -- Fiction; Mothers and daughters -- Fiction; Research -- Fiction; Universities and colleges -- Fiction; Friendship -- Fiction; Shoplifting -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Getting caught shoplifting leads fifteen-year-old Mia to a greater understanding of herself, sympathy for her unmarried mother, and a job in a college laboratory which not only pleases her ailing scientist grandfather, but lets her glimpse a possible future brighter than any she had imagined.