"...this story of love and loss will captivate readers. Vroman writes for a teen audience with maturity and grace, never watering down the heartrending misery of poverty. This is a book that will resonate with young people long after they've turned the last page. A first choice for all young adult library shelves" —School Library Journal The hollow was the perfect place to hide. Or so Free’s dad said when they fled California, her five-year-old brother illegally in tow, to hide out in the West Virginia mountains and make some fast cash. As her father disappears with increasing frequency, Free watches her brother largely alone among drug dealers and thieves—until their neighbor Cole appears with lots of questions and determined to the crack the un-crack-able Free. When the family she’s desperate to protect is ripped apart, Free turns to Cole for help and can’t deny the pull she feels toward the boy with too many questions—and who holds just as many secrets—finding that Cole might need her as much as she needs him.
Into the Hollow
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- "Seventeen-year-old Freedom Paine is faced with impossible choices. Her mother is dead. Her father is barely holding it together. She is the only stable individual her brother "Little" has ever known, and they are on the run from a secret that could tear them apart. Cole Anderson knows about secrets. Unfortunately,in the small town of Poplar Branch, WV, secrets are a luxury that Cole does not have. Everyone knows who his family is and that he is from the holler. Even as he tries to keep his secrets from Free, Cole wants to learn hers. Up in the mountains of McDowell County, there is only drugs, trash, and despair, but somehow Cole and Freedom may have found something that could save them both. Told from two perspectives, this story of love and loss will captivate readers. Vroman writes for a teen audience with maturity and grace, never watering down the heartrending misery of poverty. This is a book that will resonate with young people long after they've turned the last page. A first choice for all young adult library shelves" --School Library Journal