denial

Fifteen-year-old Devon Davenport was a straight-A student, keeper on her soccer team, responsible babysitter to a young set of twins, and volunteer soccer coach and official. This is how a determined young Devon stayed off the path of following in her flirty, irresponsible, and selfish mother's footsteps. Who would guess that a girl with a squeaky clean reputation would find herself in a juvinile detention center for the attempted murder of a baby--her baby? In this descriptive, sensitive, insightful, and heartbreaking story, Amy Efaw describes the powers of decision-making, denial, and confronting the truth inside tragedy.