Haycak, Cara

Living on impulse / Cara Haycak. - New York : Dutton Books/Penguin Group, c2009. - 294 p.

Getting caught shoplifting leads fifteen-year-old Mia to a greater understanding of herself, sympathy for her unmarried mother, and a job in a college laboratory which not only pleases her ailing scientist grandfather, but lets her glimpse a possible future brighter than any she had imagined.

ISBN: 9780525422310 (pbk.) ; 9.00

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Self-actualization (Psychology)--Fiction
Family problems--Fiction
Mothers and daughters--Fiction
Friendship--Fiction
Shoplifting--Fiction