A teen boy thinks his vaping habit is harmless until it becomes a crippling addiction of nightmarish dimensions in this searing young adult novel from Newbery and National Book Award winner Cynthia Kadohata.
Sixteen-year-old Elijah is pretty damn sick of his parents always being on his case about vaping. Its not like hes shooting up or knocking back pills. Until something changes, so slowly Jacob isnt even aware its happening. Instead of vaping every now and then when he wants to, hes vaping all the time because he has to.
And soon, Elijah and his friends need even more than vaping and are stumbling their way into the sprawling drug culture of Southern California, where girls sell pictures of themselves for vape and pill money, and the dealers are cutthroat. The more desperate the teens become, the more money they need. And to get that money theyre being blackmailed into an impossible choiceand an end you wont see coming.
Cynthia Kadohata won the National Book Award for The Thing About Luck and the Newbery Medal for Kira-Kira. Shes also the author of many more critically acclaimed novels, including Checked, A Million Shades of Gray, A Place to Belong, Weedflower, Cracker!, and Outside Beauty. In addition to rescuing Dobermans, shes also managed her sons hockey team. She lives in California. Visit her online at CynthiaKadohata.com.
