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Badlands
No more perfect, pretty daughter and popular, honor-roll, cheerleader.
Jaqueline Cole is seventeen when her life explodes in a flurry of family drama and bad choices. Jaq’s Mom has a midlife crisis, her troubled older brother runs away, and out of frustration, Jaq’s Dad doubles down on his paranoid, penny-pinching, over-parenting. Jaq finally has enough.
Jaqueline starts acting out in violent and destructive ways, letting her family and everybody else know how it feels to have your life ruined.After a criminal act of shameful vandalism, Jaq is arrested. Her father, tired of her rebellious ways, makes a difficult decision, and Jaq finds herself dropped off in the middle of the Idaho Badlands with a bunch of other problem teens. Her Dad hopes that the thirty-day survival program will reform Jaq.
At first it’s nothing but struggle for her, but just as she thinks it might not be all bad, kids and counselors begin turning up murdered, and what starts out as an adventure in wilderness survival becomes a real life-and-death ordeal.
One way or the other, the Badlands will change Jaq forever.
Jaqueline Cole is seventeen when her life explodes in a flurry of family drama and bad choices. Jaq’s Mom has a midlife crisis, her troubled older brother runs away, and out of frustration, Jaq’s Dad doubles down on his paranoid, penny-pinching, over-parenting. Jaq finally has enough.
Jaqueline starts acting out in violent and destructive ways, letting her family and everybody else know how it feels to have your life ruined.After a criminal act of shameful vandalism, Jaq is arrested. Her father, tired of her rebellious ways, makes a difficult decision, and Jaq finds herself dropped off in the middle of the Idaho Badlands with a bunch of other problem teens. Her Dad hopes that the thirty-day survival program will reform Jaq.
At first it’s nothing but struggle for her, but just as she thinks it might not be all bad, kids and counselors begin turning up murdered, and what starts out as an adventure in wilderness survival becomes a real life-and-death ordeal.
One way or the other, the Badlands will change Jaq forever.
- GenresYoung Adult
302 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 19, 2024
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About the author
Jo Schaffer Layton
8 books63 followersJo Schaffer Layton was born and raised in the California Bay Area in a huge, creative family. She is a YA novelist, speaker, writer at BYU TV, works in film production and is a Taekwondo black belt.
She's a founding member of Operation Literacy and co-founder of the Teen Author Boot Camp, one of the largest conferences in the nation for youth ages 13-19. She and a crew of local and international bestselling authors present writing workshops to hundreds of attendees at the Utah-based conference as well as hundreds of others worldwide who view the conference online.
Jo loves being involved in anything that promotes literacy and family. She is passionate about community, travel, books, music, healthy eating, classic films and martial arts. Her brain is always spinning new ideas for books and sometimes she even gets around to blogging.
Jo is mom of 3 strapping lads as well as two wonderful bonus kiddos. She lives in Texas with her hunky tattooed husband.
She's a founding member of Operation Literacy and co-founder of the Teen Author Boot Camp, one of the largest conferences in the nation for youth ages 13-19. She and a crew of local and international bestselling authors present writing workshops to hundreds of attendees at the Utah-based conference as well as hundreds of others worldwide who view the conference online.
Jo loves being involved in anything that promotes literacy and family. She is passionate about community, travel, books, music, healthy eating, classic films and martial arts. Her brain is always spinning new ideas for books and sometimes she even gets around to blogging.
Jo is mom of 3 strapping lads as well as two wonderful bonus kiddos. She lives in Texas with her hunky tattooed husband.
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June 21, 2024
I LOVE this book!
I couldn't put it down!
I have so many good things to say about it.
It has everything- it's well written and sucked me in from the start. It has action, a little bit of romance, suspense, mystery, unique story, and a great character arc.
I just finished it and am seriously considering reading it all over again because it was THAT good. Can't remember the last time I enjoyed a book so much!
I couldn't put it down!
I have so many good things to say about it.
It has everything- it's well written and sucked me in from the start. It has action, a little bit of romance, suspense, mystery, unique story, and a great character arc.
I just finished it and am seriously considering reading it all over again because it was THAT good. Can't remember the last time I enjoyed a book so much!
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