![]() The writing is lonely, haunting, sensuous, and oddly beautiful. The gift in this book is Reed’s ability to find the perfect words and use them in ways for which the reader is not ready. ![]() Sindy Felin, National Book Award nominee for Touching Snow roadmap to a dark but realistic underworld of young unsupervised teens drifting from one unsavory experience to another.” ![]() Reed gives a disturbing and concise snapshot of what it can be like today for teens struggling with self-identity and peer acceptance when in a heartbeat they follow the ‘wrong road.” In crisp, clean prose Amy Reed places the reader right into the heart and mind and life of a girl who makes the choice to be one of the beautiful ones. I was terrified for Cassie and captivated at the same time by Amy Reed’s luminous prose. Amy Reed is an author to keep on your radar.”Įllen Hopkins, best-selling author of Crank, Burned, Glass, and ImpulseĪ latter-day Go Ask Alice, BEAUTIFUL is raw, gritty, and powerful, an intense ice-pick jab to the heart. ** 2011 YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult ReadersīEAUTIFUL is stark, disquieting and, quite simply, riveting. ![]()
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