Books with title Skin Deep

Winner of the Delacorte Press Prize for a First Young Adult Novel.If all the world’s a stage, Andrea Anderson is sitting in the audience. High school has its predictable heroes, heroines, villains, and plotlines, and Andrea has no problem guessing how each drama will turn out. She is, after all, a professional spectator. In the social hierarchy she is a Nothing, and at home her mother runs the show. All Andrea has to do is show up every day and life basically plays out as scripted.Then one day Andrea accepts a job. Honora Menapace—a reclusive neighbor—is sick. As in every other aspect of her life, Andrea’s role is clear: Honora’s garden must be taken care of and her pottery finished, and someone needs to feed her dog, Zena. But what starts out as a simple job yanks Andrea’s back-row seat out from under her. Life is no longer predictable, and nothing is what it seems. Light is dark, villains are heroes, and what she once saw as ugly is too beautiful for words. Andrea must face the fact that life at first glance doesn’t even crack the surface.“[An] involving first novel depicting a pivotal year of loss, change, and awakening.”—Booklist“Crane shows readers about self-discovery and the importance of passion and strength.”—Publishers Weekly

During the summer of 1937, June Redfern dramatically transforms herself from a disgraced schoolgirl into a national celebrity. After achieving success in a series of beauty contests, doors suddenly open up into the lucrative world of fashion modelling. Within this sophisticated jungle, young June meets and falls madly in love with the suave David Furie, a notorious gambler and owner of a failing advertising agency. Her fated relationship with the duplicitous Furie sees her swiftly exchange the glitz and glamour of the West End catwalks for the dock at the Old Bailey – the perfect victim of a chilling conspiracy, perpetrated by those at the very heart of the British Establishment.

David Reel, Washington, D.C. plastic surgeon and researcher, is about to make medical history. After two successful trial surgeries, his new creation, a second generation lab-grown skin, promises to be a miracle for burn victims. But beneath the fanfare, David is an emotionally tortured soul, haunted by the deaths of his mother and best friend in a horrific fire years before. Now, while managing his legitimate surgical practice, David is pursuing a more ungodly quest deep in the confines of his lab. That, however, is just the beginning of the nightmare, when he discovers that an unrelenting psychopath is out to destroy him. With his patients doomed and David on the verge of a breakdown, he has one final surprise for the medical community. Something so bizarre, so horrifying, not even his nemesis could have imagined it. And it will push David Reel to the brink of insanity and beyond

Nobody understands what Bethany has to deal with on a daily basis. Tormented by bullies about her large size, she worries how much more she can take. The feelings she has for her best friend Anderson don’t help, especially since he never noticed them. When her only friends start to bail as she needs them the most, she fears she might be drowning. A beautiful rival is determined to steal Anderson just as he seems to be noticing her, and Bethany doesn’t think she can compete. Hope appears in the form of a new program at school, but just as she begins to believe her whole world is turned upside down by Anderson’s secret. As the bullying escalates to the point that her life could be in danger, she learns that demons are real and after her. If she can’t rise above her own issues, the entire town will go to hell—literally.

If all the world’s a stage, Andrea Anderson is sitting in the audience. High school has its predictable heroes, heroines, villains, and plotlines, and Andrea has no problem guessing how each drama will turn out. She is, after all, a professional spectator. In the social hierarchy she is a Nothing, and at home her mother runs the show. All Andrea has to do is show up every day and life basically plays out as scripted. Then one day Andrea accepts a job. Honora Menapace–a reclusive neighbor–is sick. As in every other aspect of her life, Andrea’s role is clear: Honora’s garden must be taken care of and her pottery finished, and someone needs to feed her dog, Zena. But what starts out as a simple job yanks Andrea’s back-row seat out from under her. Life is no longer predictable, and nothing is what it seems. Light is dark, villains are heroes, and what she once saw as ugly is too beautiful for words. Andrea must face the fact that life at first glance doesn’t even crack the surface.From the Hardcover edition.

David Reel, Washington, D.C. plastic surgeon and researcher, is about to make medical history. After two successful trial surgeries, his new creation, a second generation lab-grown skin, promises to be a miracle for burn victims. But beneath the fanfare, David is an emotionally tortured soul, haunted by the deaths of his mother and best friend in a horrific fire years before. Now, while managing his legitimate surgical practice, David is pursuing a more ungodly quest deep in the confines of his lab. That, however, is just the beginning of the nightmare, when he discovers that an unrelenting psychopath is out to destroy him. With his patients doomed and David on the verge of a breakdown, he has one final surprise for the medical community. Something so bizarre, so horrifying, not even his nemesis could have imagined it. And it will push David Reel to the brink of insanity and beyond . . .