Title: Don't breathe a word
Description: Joy Delamere is suffocating from severe asthma, overprotective parents, and an emotionally-abusive boyfriend when she escapes to the streets of nearby Seattle and falls in with a "street family" that teaches her to use a strength she did not know she had.
Subjects: Homeless persons, Street children, Asthma, Self-actualization (Psychology), Psychological abuse, Family life, Fiction, Children's fiction, Homeless persons, fiction, Asthma, fiction, Family life, fiction, Seattle (wash.), fiction
Places: Seattle (Wash.), Seattle, Washington (State)