Lawrence, Lisa J

With her unstable, alcoholic mother, sixteen-year-old Isabelle moves from one dingy apartment to the next while trying to care for her younger siblings. Things go from bad to worse when Isabelle gets on the wrong side of a popular girl at her new school. And although she doesn't really have time for romance, she realizes she's falling for a boy named Will, which only complicates things.

After moving into a dank and drafty basement suite in West Edmonton with her truckdriving father, nasty stepmother and taciturn twin brother, Ash, seventeen-year-old Greta doesn't have high expectations for her last year of high school. When she blacks out at a party and is told the next day that she's had sex, she thinks things can't get any worse. She's wrong.

"Isabelle knows all about shouldering responsibility: she looks after her young siblings because their mother is often drunk or absent. School is a nightmare, but one teacher seems to understand that Isabelle has talent to spare"--Publisher.