Shock Point
- ISBN-10
- 0142412406
- ISBN-13
- 9780142412404
- Category
- Young Adult Fiction
- Pages
- 185
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-10
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- April Henry
Description
Fifteen-year-old Cassie Streng is determined to expose her stepfather after learning that he is giving a dangerous experimental drug to his teenaged psychiatric patients, but he sends her to a boot camp for troubled teens in Mexico in order to keep her quiet.
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