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Janet Ruth Young

Janet Ruth Young is the author of the teen novels My Beautiful Failure, Things I Shouldn’t Think (previously published as The Babysitter Murders), and The Opposite of Music. She lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Visit her at JanetRuthYoung.com.

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Things I Shouldn't Think
Things I Shouldn't Think By: Janet Ruth Young
This edition: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publication date: November 13, 2012
Ages: above 14
An unnerving novel about a seventeen-year-old girl who suffers from a form of OCD that makes her think dark, disturbing thoughts.Seventeen year-old Dani Solomon is not a violent person, but she has violent thoughts. Cruel...
Other Formats: eBook
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My Beautiful Failure
My Beautiful Failure By: Janet Ruth Young
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: November 13, 2012
Ages: above 12
A haunting account of a teen boy who volunteers at a suicide hotline and falls for a troubled caller.Billy is a sophomore in high school, and twice a week, he volunteers at Listeners, a suicide hotline. Jenney is an...
Other Formats: eBook, Trade Paperback
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The Babysitter Murders
The Babysitter Murders By: Janet Ruth Young
This edition: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publication date: July 26, 2011
Ages: above 14
Everyone has weird thoughts sometimes. But for seventeen-year-old Dani Solomon, strange thoughts have taken over her life. She loves Alex, the little boy she babysits, more than anything. But one day, she has a vision of...
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The Opposite of Music
The Opposite of Music By: Janet Ruth Young
This edition: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publication date: May 20, 2008
Ages: above 12
when i am well i will take you At first Billy's father just seemed distant, as if he had something on his mind. Then he stopped listening to music, saying it hurt his ears. After a while he stopped eating and sleeping. And...
Other Formats: eBook