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    Chill Wind: A Novel
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    Chill Wind: A Novel

    By Janet McDonald

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    About this ebook

    Chill Wind is the 2003 winner of the Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe New Talent Award.

    A tough and funny project girl manages to make that chill wind blow away in Janet McDonald's sequel to Spellbound.

    The good life, according to Aisha Ingram, is easy. It's hanging with friends, dancing, listening to music, whatever . . . but it doesn't include worrying about the future. Chilling out is her mantra until she receives a sixty-day termination-of-welfare-benefits notice. Without her monthly food stamps and assistance checks and with no help from the father of her two children, Aisha's life threatens to become a little too "chilly."

    The clock is ticking and she doesn't have many options, but one thing she knows for sure: workfare is not for her. There's no way she's going to scrub subway cars or sweep city sidewalks. Aisha tries to come up with other ways to get money, but things don't look good. Soon another notice comes: only thirty days left. Then she sees an ad on TV for BIGMODELS, and she figures she might as well check out the agency. After all, she is pretty enough. But just when it looks like Aisha's problems might be solved, things grow crazy again.

    In Aisha, Janet McDonald has created a larger-than-life heroine who finds and succeeds at what is right for her.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJan 24, 2006
    ISBN9781466803152
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    Chill Wind: A Novel
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    Janet McDonald

    Janet McDonald is Associate Professor (Theatre Studies), and is currently the School Coordinator of Creative Arts at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia. Robert Mason is Lecturer (Migration and Security Studies) at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

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      This book is about the irresponsibilities of a teenager that turns into an obligations she is not prepared for. I would recommend this book to teenagers as a discussion about unwanted pregnancies and all they have to give up to take care of their obligations.