The Blind Faith Hotel (Hardcover)

Fourteen-year-old Zoe wonders how she'll survive after her family falls apart. A shoplifting episode lands her in a work program at a local nature preserve. The work starts to stabilize Zoe, and when she meets a boy who shares her love of wild things, it seems she might be home after all. When her family falls apart, fourteen-year-old Zoe feels like her whole world is going to pieces. Zoe's mother takes her kids away from their father, a fisherman who ships out to Alaska, and moves them to a run-down farmhouse she's inherited in the Midwest. Zoe's stuck -- in more ways than one.

Surrounded by strangers and a sea of prairie grass, she loses her bearings. A brush with the law lands Zoe in a work program at a local nature preserve. But the work starts to ground and steady her. When she meets a wild boy who shares her love of untamed places, it seems he might help Zoe find her way. Or is he too lost, too damaged himself?

Funny and poignant, sharp-eyed and real, this is a portrait of a girl looking for her own true self and a place she can call home.