Somebody's Daughter

by Shelley Stoehr

Overview

Somebody’s Daughter combines multiple points of view to tell the chilling events of a party gone wrong when the adults have all checked out of their children's lives. … Casey Keenan, 15, and her two best friends attend their first kegger. The girls get drunk, and friend Rain Rikowsky, 16, is brutally raped. As if that weren’t bad enough, Casey's mother has been hired to write a book about the rape and the events leading up to it. And friend Kayla is still in love with the party's host, Brian! The girls -- especially Casey -- must reach deep inside to uncover the truth about the party, and to finally come to terms with themselves and horrifying experience of that night.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014325486
Publisher:	Shelley Stoehr
Publication date:	03/15/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	76 KB

About the Author

Shelley Stoehr has authored five award-winning novels and one short story collection for Young Adults, including the still popular, award-winning, Crosses. Shelley has published short stories in three separate Young Adult anthologies, most recently a short story version of Somebody’s Daughter in the anthology Truth and Dare. According to Kirkus, “With remarkably few exceptions, the short stories in this collection exemplify the best of the form, drawing readers immediately into the lives of characters who confront the hard truths of alienation, love, trauma and sex.”
Stoehr is known as edgy, hip Young Adult author,” and has a reputation for being truthful and real for older teens. School Library Journal said that “Stoehr’s narrative flow is a strength, as is her ability to capture the rhythms, attitudes, and feelings of teens”, and blogger Dave Kiersh wrote, “Stoehr writes about young women in a way that few others do. She presents characters and gives a voice to girls that are seldom heard about in today's commodified popular culture.”

Editorial Reviews

Shelley Stoehr is a writer of gritty, realistic fiction for older teens, including an award-winning novel, Crosses, which deals with the subject of self-harm. Somebody's Daughter is a 93-page novella. ...All of the characters in Somebody's Daughter are carefully drawn and life-like, and their distinct voices are full of emotion and pain. This is one for readers who enjoy thought-provoking, intense fiction.

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