The secret life of Lincoln Jones
By: Wendelin Van Draanen
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers; Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781101940402; 9781101940419; 9781101940426
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship; Child authors; JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Multigenerational; Juvenile fiction; Children of abused wives; Fiction; Boys; Patients; JUVENILE FICTION / School & Education; Dementia
Description: Lincoln Jones is always working on the latest story he's got going in his notebook. Those stories are his refuge. A place where the hero always prevails and the bad guy goes to jail. Real life is messy and complicated, so Lincoln sticks to fiction and keeps to himself. Which works fine until a nosy girl at his new school starts prying into his private business. She wants to know what he's writing, where he disappears to after school, and why he never talks to anybody.

Lincoln Jones is always working on the latest story he's got going in his notebook. Those stories are his refuge, a place where the hero always prevails and the bad guy goes to jail. Real life is complicated: his mother works at a dementia facility after leaving an abusive boyfriend. Lincoln stays at the facility after school until his mother gets off work; he writes the patients into his fiction-- even the deaths he witnesses. Then Kandi Kain, a nosy girl at his school, starts prying into his private business. She wants to know what he's writing, where he disappears to after school, and why he never talks to anybody.