When the bough breaks
By: Kay Lynn Mangum.
Publisher: Deseret Book
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Salt Lake City, Utah
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781590387481
Subjects: Grief -- Fiction.; Alcoholism -- Fiction.; Stepfamilies -- Fiction.; Poetry -- Fiction.; High schools -- Fiction.; Schools -- Fiction.; Mormons -- Fiction.; Christian life -- Fiction.; Self-esteem -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Fifteen-year-old Rachel uses poetry and her Mormon faith to cope with grief over the loss of her father, the horrors of her brother's alcoholism, resentment of her new stepfather, and the awkwardness of having an attractive schoolmate as her stepbrother.