NUM8ERS

Author (last name first):
Ward, Rachel  

Publisher, Date of Publication: 

Chicken House Scholastic/2010

Grade Level/ or Age Level: 

9th-12th

Classification:
Fiction 

A teenage girl struggles with precognitive powers. She is able to see a person's death date by gazing into their eyes. This foresight isolates her and life events conspire to make her a ward of the faster care system. While in the system she is rebellious and acts out through sneaking out, skipping school, drinking, and stealing. She meets what ultimately is her true love and becomes pregnate. She is unable to stop anyone's death date from accruing and lives with the knowledge of her beloveds day of death. 
* Be aware that this book has foul language, drugs abuse, drinking, and sexual overtones.  

Reviewed By: Sherrie Denham ( CVHS Nursing Instruction)