Burned

Raised in a religious -- yet abusive -- family, Pattyn Von Stratten starts asking questions -- about God, a woman's role, sex, love. She experiences the first stirrings of passion, but when her father catches her in a compromising position, events spiral out of control. Pattyn is sent to live with an aunt in the wilds of Nevada to find salvation and redemption. What she finds instead is love and acceptance -- until she realizes that her old demons will not let her go.

raised In A Stern, Abusive Mormon Household, A Teenage Girl Starts To Question Her Religion And Struggles To Find Her Destiny.

her Father Is Abusive, Her Mother Is Submissive, And Her Church Looks The Other Way. Confused And Angry, Pattyn Von Stratten Acts Out And Is Sent To Live With An Aunt On A Nevada Ranch. She Finds The Love And Acceptance She Craves, With Disturbing Consequences.

tina Frolund - Voya

this Gritty, Angsty, Ultimately Tragic And Troubling Coming-of-age Story Is Set In Rural Nevada And Told In Free Verse. An Abusive, Alcoholic Father; A Perpetually Pregnant Mother; Six Little Sisters And A Brother On The Way; A Religious Culture That She Is Beginning To Question; And The Pressure Of Always Being Obedient And Docile Are Beginning To Smother Seventeen-year-old Pattyn. Her One Outlet Is Shooting Targets In The Desert, Something She Is Very Good At. Pattyn Is No Angel, But She Is Not That Far From Normal Either. When Her Father Discovers Her First Sexual Encounter, He Goes Ballistic, And When Pattyn Acts Out In Rebellion, He Sends Her To Her Aunt Jeanette. On Aunt J's Ranch, Pattyn Experiences A Little Bit Of Freedom And Positive Attention, Learns Some Family Secrets, Has Her Consciousness Raised About Nuclear Testing In The Desert, And Meets Ethan, With Whom Her Sexual And Emotional Explorations Continue. This Book Raises Many Issues-perhaps Too Many-including The Lingering Effects Of The Vietnam War, The Role Of Women In Mormon Culture, Yucca Mountain And Hazardous Waste Disposal, And Family Violence. Still It All Coalesces Into A Compelling And Emotional Story Told In A Unique Way. While Not Lyrically Written, The Free Verses, Many In The Form Of Concrete Poems, Create A Compressed And Intense Reading Experience With No Extraneous Dialogue Or Description. Each Verse Narrated By Pattyn Is An Episode In Her Growing Awareness. This Book Will Appeal To Teens Favoring Realistic Fiction And Dramatic Interpersonal Stories. Voya Codes: 3q 2p S (readable Without Serious Defects; For The Ya With A Special Interest In The Subject; Senior High, Defined As Grades 10 To 12). 2006,margaret K. Mcelderry Books/s & S, 544p., Ages 15 To 18.

NY Times bestseller, is the story of a young woman, struggling to find her place in the world in the face of abuse by the person she most adores: her father. She questions her family, her faith, and her ability to love and be loved. Suspended from school, she is sent to rural Nevada to live with an aunt whom she barely knows. There she finds love, acceptance and new knowledge about the things that have made her father like he is. But even there, her demons find her. - See more at: http://ellenhopkins.com/YoungAdult/burned/#sthash.Kf8tIiN5.dpuf Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.