Breaking Faith

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Pub Date Mar 14 2017 | Archive Date Oct 02 2017
Teens & YA

Description

Faith Emily Hansen narrates her life from age five to eighteen in this gritty but often funny novel about family, mental illness and addiction. All Faith wants is to be loved, to have a stable home and to live without the darkness that led her to heroin addiction and a life on the street. The story starts at the end, as Faith appeals to other kids battling their own issues. She tells them that there is hope and that she herself was pulled back from her ledge by an unlikely champion: the sister who drove her to the streets in the first place.

Faith Emily Hansen narrates her life from age five to eighteen in this gritty but often funny novel about family, mental illness and addiction. All Faith wants is to be loved, to have a stable home...

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A Note From the Publisher

About the Author: E. Graziani is a teacher/librarian, author, and speaker. She is the author of War in My Town, one of the Canadian Children's Book Centre's Best Books for Kids and Teens and finalist in the Hamilton Arts Council Literary Awards for Best Non-Fiction, as well as the 'Alice' young adult novel series and a novella, Jess Under Pressure. E. Graziani regularly speaks to young people about her books and the publishing process. She lives in Ontario, Canada with her husband and four daughters.

About the Author: E. Graziani is a teacher/librarian, author, and speaker. She is the author of War in My Town, one of the Canadian Children's Book Centre's Best Books for Kids and Teens...

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Advance Praise

"Breaking Faith is an unflinching look at mental illness and addiction. The events of Faith’s life are heartbreaking, the more so for being completely believable. The themes of mental illness, drug addiction, and life on the street as a runaway are explored in realistic detail." - VOYA

"Told in Faith's tortured voice, this novel traces the path of despair as she loses everything that a growing young woman needs to survive and thrive.... Graziani's heartrending novel is a gritty, realistic voyage through a teen's path of despair and the all-too-tempting panacea of self-medication through drugs, which soon destroys those who would "chase the dragon." Many older teens will connect with this believable portrait of a teen experience with homelessness and addiction." - School Library Journal

"Breaking Faith is an unflinching look at mental illness and addiction. The events of Faith’s life are heartbreaking, the more so for being completely believable. The themes of mental illness, drug...

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ISBN 9781772600247
PRICE $12.95 (USD)

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This was such a heart wrenching and emotional story. I felt connected to Faith throughout her entire journey and watched her grow and change as she fell to rock bottom and began to climb out of it. I didn't want to put down this story as it pulled me in and I felt like I was there on the streets of Toronto alongside the characters.

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