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The Free by Lauren McLaughlin

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The Free

Author
Lauren McLaughlin
Narrator
James Shippy
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc.
Publish Date
28 February 2017
Run Time
6 hours 24 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Children’s / Teenage fiction: Thrillers, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Abuse, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: siblings
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In the beginning, Isaac West stole to give his younger sister Janelle little things: a new sweater, a scarf, just so she looked less like a charity case whose mother spent money on booze and more like the prep school girls he'd see on his way to school. But when Isaac's petty theft lands him in juvie, he's cut off from helping Janelle. Friendless in a dangerous world of gangs and violent offenders, he must watch his every step. His sentence requires him to meet regularly for group therapy, where the inmates reenact their crimes, attempting to understand what happened from the perspective of their victims. The therapy is intense. And as Isaac works through scenes with the group, he begins to recall a memory he'd long ago repressed. A memory that changed everything. And as he begins to piece together the truth about the circumstances that shaped his life-the circumstances that brought Isaac to Haverland in the first place-he must face who he was, who he is.and who he wants to be.

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Author
Lauren McLaughlin
Narrator
James Shippy
Duration
6 hours 24 minutes
Release Date
28 February 2017
ISBN
9781501952647
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc.
Genre
Children’s / Teenage fiction: Thrillers, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Abuse, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: siblings

Synopsis

In the beginning, Isaac West stole to give his younger sister Janelle little things: a new sweater, a scarf, just so she looked less like a charity case whose mother spent money on booze and more like the prep school girls he'd see on his way to school. But when Isaac's petty theft lands him in juvie, he's cut off from helping Janelle. Friendless in a dangerous world of gangs and violent offenders, he must watch his every step. His sentence requires him to meet regularly for group therapy, where the inmates reenact their crimes, attempting to understand what happened from the perspective of their victims. The therapy is intense. And as Isaac works through scenes with the group, he begins to recall a memory he'd long ago repressed. A memory that changed everything. And as he begins to piece together the truth about the circumstances that shaped his life-the circumstances that brought Isaac to Haverland in the first place-he must face who he was, who he is.and who he wants to be.

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