As Ronnie struggles to define herself, an important letter will present her with the most heart-wrenching decision of her life: to accept the woman who wants to adopt her, or to return to the mother who once abandoned her. But when Ronnie betrays her only friend, a chubby outcast named Cat, she begins a pattern of deception that can only end in disaster.

Meanwhile, Ronnie wants more than anything to fit in with the popular crowd, especially with the beautiful (but stuck-up) Paige. Her latest foster mom, Alison, is Ronnie's very last chance-if she doesn't want to end up in some awful residential treatment center. Now thirteen years old, Ronnie has been 'returned' from multiple foster homes because of her impulsive lying and stealing. Select the department you want to search in. Lowell builds a likeable character that young adults can identify with. Returnable Girl eBook : Lowell, Pamela: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store. Sympathy for Ronnie and her determination grows as the story develops. That's how Ronnie Hartman feels after her mother and Kenny, her mom's good-for-nothing boyfriend, move to Alaska, bringing Ronnie's two younger brothers with them and leaving her behind. Lowell presents an honest book about a young girl trying to find her family and self-worth.

That’s what it says in my file, but if you include the return by my uncle and Raylene the week before Christmas almost two years ago, then it really has been a total of ten times-so far. I realized I needed to do something REALLY BIG this time.'Ībandoned. excerpt from returnable girl Veronica Hartman has been returned nine times between the ages of eleven and thirteen. Everything! All of the things that Alison had given me.But that wasn't enough, and more than that, it wasn't working. ' A powerful rage came over me and before I knew it, I was throwing things around my room.

Returnable Girl by Pamela Lowell