Beneath a meth moon
Subtitle: an elegy
By: Jacqueline Woodson
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780142423929
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Grief; Drug abuse; Fiction; Juvenile fiction; Methamphetamine abuse; Bereavement
Description: Overview:  Laurel Daneau has moved on to a new life, in a new town, but inside she's still reeling from the loss of her beloved mother and grandmother after Hurricane Katrina washed away their home.  Laurel's new life is going well, with a new best friend, a place on the cheerleading squad and T-Boom, co-captain of the basketball team, for a boyfriend.  Yet Laurel is haunted by voices and memories from her past.  When T-Boom introduces Laurel to meth, she immediately falls under its spell, loving the way it erases, even if only briefly, her past.  But as she becomes alienated from her friends and family, she becomes a shell of her former self, and longs to be whole again.  With help from an artist named Moses and her friend Kaylee, she's able to begin to rewrite her story and start to move on from her addiction.
Table of contents: title: Moses; title: The house; title: Other houses; title: Pass Christian, Mississippi; title: This storm coming; title: Galilee sunrise; title: Daddy : part one; title: Water rising up; title: Galilee; title: Daddy : part two; title: Kaylee before; title: T-boom; title: Laurel; title: Galilee moon; title: Happiness; title: Making the moon; title: Stop, look and listen; title: Thunderation; title: Confrontation; title: Kaylee after; title: After T-boom; title: Elsewhere; title: Leaving Galilee; title: Beneath a meth moon; title: Donnersville; title: Erase me; title: The second coming of Moses; title: Daneau's girl; title: The missing; title: New sunrise; title: Lord, do remember me; title: Laughter; title: Moses and Rosalie; title: Home's a place I used to know; title: Dream; title: Donnersville moon; title: Another second chance; title: Elegy for mama and m'lady; title: Daddy; title: Elegy.