O.Y.L.
By: Scott Heydt
Publisher: Helms Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Rockford, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780982060506
Subjects: High school students; Fiction
Description: Jenna's life until high school has not been easy. Born to teen parents and like her mother, a victim of a neglecting and abusive father, she is forced to be her own caretaker at a pivotal time in her life. Back to relative normalcy and stronger for the experience, the time is ripe for Jenna to focus on herself and on coming clean about her feelings, despite her mother's warnings, to the object of her affection. A once ordinary, overlooked tree now becomes a symbol for Jenna's desires. Even in her dreams, the perfect apple lingers just beyond her fingertips as she searches for a way to say, "I love you." But when an intruder invades campus, putting Jenna's newfound love in the center, Jenna must face her haunting past, must forgive her mother for the unforgivable, and must ultimately decide if love that is out of her league is worth the climb.