Carry Me Home By Jessica Therrien 9781947392090 (Paperback)

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Family & home stories (childre

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Acorn publishing

Carry Me Home : Acorn Publishing : 9781947392090 : 1947392093 : 16 Aug 2017 : CARRY ME HOME is a fictional novel inspired by the true story of a teenage girl's involvement in several Mexican gangs in San Jose and Los Angeles. The members of her crew call her, Guera, Spanish for "white girl" and it doesn't take long for her to get lost in their world of guns and drugs. Lucy and Ruth are country girls from a broken home. When they move to the city with their mother, leaving behind their family ranch and a dead-beat father, Lucy unravels. They run to their grandparents' place, a trailer park mobile home in the barrio of San Jose. Lucy's barrio friends have changed since her last visit. They've joined a gang called VC. They teach her to fight, to shank, to beat a person unconscious and play with guns. When things get too heavy, and lives are at stake, the three head for LA seeking a better life. But trouble always follows Lucy. She befriends the wrong people, members of another gang, an

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