Girl, Unframed

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Seven starred reviews!
A riveting, meticulously plotted mystery with plenty of drama. Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A teen girls summer with her famous mother turns sinister in this gripping thriller inspired by a real-life Hollywood murder from Printz Honorwinning and National Book Award finalist author Deb Calettiperfect for fans of Courtney Summerss Sadie.

Sydney Reilly has a bad feeling about going home to San Francisco before she even gets on the plane. How could she not Her mother is Lila Shorethe Lila Shorea film star who prizes her beauty and male attention above all elsecertainly above her daughter.

But Sydneys worries multiply when she discovers that Lila is involved with the dangerous Jake, an art dealer with shady connections. Jake loves all beautiful objects, and Sydney can feel his eyes on her whenever hes around. And hes not the only one. Sydney is starting to attract attentiongood and badwherever she goes: from sweet, handsome Nicco Ricci, from the unsettling construction worker next door, and even from Lila. Behaviors that once seemed like misunderstandings begin to feel like threats as the summer grows longer and hotter.

But real danger, crimes of passion, the kind of stuff where someone gets killedit only mostly happens in the movies, Sydney is sure. Until the night something life-changing happens on the stairs that lead to the beach. A thrilling night that goes suddenly very wrong. When loyalties are called into question. And when Sydney learns a terrible truth: beautiful objects can break.

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Deb Caletti is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of over sixteen books for adults and young adults, includingHoney, Baby, Sweetheart, a finalist for the National Book Award;A Heart in a Body in the World, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book;Girl, Unframed; andOne Great Lie.Her books have also won the Josette Frank Award for Fiction, the Washington State Book Award, and numerous other state awards and honors, and she was a finalist for the PEN USA Award. She lives with her family in Seattle.