Going Under By Kathe Koja 9780374326821 (Paperback)

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Family & home stories (childre

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Wordery

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3pl

Going Under : St. Martins Press-3PL : 9780374326821 : 0374326827 : 05 Sep 2006 : Because all my life had been a chrysalis, with you, Ada and Marshall and our house; even though we did other things and saw other people, the summers at the lake, and all those homeschoolers' parties, it was still always just ? us. Hilly and her brother, Ivan, have been homeschooled by their parents. All their lives it has been just the two of them ? Ivan and Hilly, brother and sister, pilot and copilot. Until Hilly breaks out of their cozy cocoon to work on the local high school literary magazine as an extracurricular activity. Ivan feels betrayed: it's no longer just the two of them. And when Hilly goes into a depression after the suicide of a friend she has made at the magazine, she drifts even further away from Ivan. Hilly's parents insist that she see a psychotherapist. Ivan steps in to help manage Hilly's recovery by taking her to and from her appointments but compounds the betrayal by establishing

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