Books with title Crossed Lines

How much trouble could fourth grade be? What could possibly go wrong? Plenty, if you're Griff O'Neill. The school year starts with a broken friendship. Next, a prune of a teacher won't get off his case. Things continue to slide downhill from there. Griff never imagined the scare of his life would turn out to be what it was. His nine-year-old self barely understands what to make of it, and nobody he knows really wants to talk about it. His story explores how a child understands serious illness and the confusion that follows. Griff's family is caught between their own fears and their urge to protect him from knowing too much. Sometimes, he sees through their act; other times, he simply wishes he didn't. In the fallout, he finds childhood slipping away and his body turning against him. Set in the late 1960s, this story shows how childhood and our experiences of it cast a mold we feel shaped by for years to come. Often, we want to break it. For Griff, this isn't possible.

Psychopath. Borderline. Crazy. Seventeen-year-old Maryanne Mayweather wears each term like a badge of pride. Expelled from her 12th boarding school, she lands on the doorstep of her flighty aunt Elaine and Elaine’s husband James, one more screw-up away from being made a ward of the state. Once a successful author, the last thing James Thorne wants is to care for his wife's bratty teenage niece, especially with his marriage falling apart. When Maryanne crafts an elaborate plan to defame and destroy him, they both discover that words are more powerful than either of them could imagine. And as their relationship goes down a path neither envisioned, the consequences are swift and far-reaching. Some lines weren’t meant to be crossed.