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Lock and Key

Sarah Dessen

When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others.

GenresAbandoned childrenJuvenile fictionSelf-actualization (Psychology)FamiliesChild abuseInterpersonal relations

422 pages

English edition · First published 2008 by Viking · ISBN 9780670010882

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