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    Almost Lost: The True Story of an Anonymous Teenager's Life on the Streets
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    Almost Lost: The True Story of an Anonymous Teenager's Life on the Streets
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    Almost Lost: The True Story of an Anonymous Teenager's Life on the Streets

    By Beatrice Sparks

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    About this ebook

    Who in his right mind wants to talk to a shrink? I don't want to talk about anything. I don't want to feel anything, taste anything ... or anything. The lyrics "just dying to die" run around in my brain day and night...

    Fifteen-year-old Sam is in pain. He comes to the therapist's office unwillingly, angry, depressed, and filled with guilt over his own self-destructive behavior. He is being drawn deeper and deeper into a black hole of despair from which he sees no way out.

    The Road Back

    This is the Real-life story of Sam's Recovery, told from tapes of his therapy sessions. It tells what drove him to leave home, how he survived on the street, and why he was desperate to escape from the brutality of the gang that had become his "family" and from the torment of his own self-loathing. For every teen who has experienced the pain and loneliness of a no-way-out darkness, and for all those who love them, here is the light that can lead the way back.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJul 27, 2010
    ISBN9780062012654
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    Almost Lost: The True Story of an Anonymous Teenager's Life on the Streets
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    Beatrice Sparks

    Beatrice Sparks is a family and adolescent therapist who edited the diary that formed the basis for Go Ask Alice, and has since edited many diaries on topics such as gangs, AIDS, and teen pregnancy in the 1988 Annie's Baby. She lives in Provo, UT.

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    • 3/5
      This book is a true story which is about the only thing that makes you want to keep reading. While the story itself is interesting, the writing style was slow and, at times, dull. I felt the book went to much into the therapy that was given when what I wanted to know more about was the boy's experiences, but it was still a good book teens and possibly adults if they are interested in this topic.