Shades of Blue

by Joyce Scarbrough

Overview

JoJo and Sam have been best friends since he moved in next door when they were five years old. JoJo has always liked the ways Sam is different from other boys, but now that they’re both 14, he’s changing in ways she’s not so sure she likes. Just when she thinks she’s getting used to his new muscles and the way other girls are looking at him, she sees the bruises on his back and knows his step-father is beating him. JoJo tries to get Sam to leave, but he says he can’t desert his mom and step-sister. He makes JoJo promise not to tell anyone or he’ll be sent away to live with his grandmother in Tennessee. When Sam’s mom witnesses the abuse for herself, she finally stops drinking and stands up for all of them, but that’s when Sam’s step-father turns deadly.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940153236414
Publisher:	Blue Attitude Books
Publication date:	04/12/2016
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	345 KB
Age Range:	13 Years

About the Author

JOYCE SCARBROUGH is a Southern woman weary of seeing herself and her peers portrayed in books and movies as either post-antebellum debutantes or barefoot hillbillies á la Daisy Duke, so all her heroines are smart, unpretentious women who refuse to be anyone but themselves. Joyce has five published novels as well as several short stories available as digital downloads. She writes both adult and YA fiction. Joyce has lived all her life in beautiful LA (lower Alabama), she's the mother of three gifted children and a blind Pomeranian named Tilly, and she's been married for 32 years to the love of her life-a superhero who disguises himself during the day as a high school math teacher and coach.