The secret life of Lincoln Jones / Van Draanen, Wendelin

"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"--OCLC.

"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"--OCLC.

I didn't set out tryin' to keep secrets. But how can I explain that I spend most afternoons with folks who've lost their minds? Who would believe even half the stuff I've seen there? Or that being there is still way better than the place we escaped. Or that I saw two people die last Thursday, but what really scares me is a being stalked by a girl named Kandi Kain.