TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van Draanen,Wendelin
TI  - The secret life of Lincoln Jones
SN  - 9781101940402
AV  - JUV PZ 7 .V2857 Se 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
KW  - Jones, Lincoln
KW  - Boys
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Child authors
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Children of abused wives
KW  - Dementia
KW  - Patients
N2  - Lincoln Jones is always working on the latest story he's got going in his notebook. Those stories are his refuge. A place where the hero always prevails and the bad guy goes to jail. Real life is messy and complicated, so Lincoln sticks to fiction and keeps to himself. Which works fine until a nosy girl at his new school starts prying into his private business. She wants to know what he's writing, where he disappears to after school, and why he never talks to anybody; Lincoln Jones is always working on the latest story he's got going in his notebook. Those stories are his refuge, a place where the hero always prevails and the bad guy goes to jail. Real life is complicated: his mother works at a dementia facility after leaving an abusive boyfriend. Lincoln stays at the facility after school until his mother gets off work; he writes the patients into his fiction-- even the deaths he witnesses. Then Kandi Kain, a nosy girl at his school, starts prying into his private business. She wants to know what he's writing, where he disappears to after school, and why he never talks to anybody
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