Negative Influences

This book tells the story of a fourteen-year-old girl named Aleaha who is cast out of her home in south Alabama because she doesn't get along with Jim, her mother's live-in. She is sent to her Aunt Jill's in Tampa Florida. Her Aunt Jill, in Aleaha's opinion is a skanky, whisper of an old woman who chain smokes and is constantly on her case. After her aunt dies, ( suspicious circumstances) Aleaha goes back home, but her stay is short lived. Jim convinces Joyce, Aleaha's mother to put her in ...