YA - Throwaway Girl (by Kristine Scarrow)

Paperback
20.3 x 12.7 cm (8 x 5 in)

"So many girls my age can't wait to get out on their own, counting down the days until they leave home, anxious to have their space and a place of their own. But when it comes right down to it and you only have yourself in this world, you don't feel that way. A throwaway girl, that's what I call myself."

Andy Burton knows a thing or two about survival. Since she was removed from her mother's home and placed in foster care when she was nine, she's had to deal with abuse, hunger, and homelessness. But now that she's eighteen, she's about to leave Haywood House, the group home for girls where she's lived for the past four years, and the closest thing to a real home she's ever known.

Will Andy be able to carve out a better life for herself and find the happiness she is searching for?

Throwaway Girl was a "CanLit Top Pick for the Classroom" and won an "In the Margins Award"