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    Touch

    By Francine Prose

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    About this ebook

    What really happened at the back of the bus?

    Did they, or didn't they?

    Did she, or didn't she?

    Something happened to fourteen-year-old Maisie Willard—something involving her three friends, all boys. But their stories don't match, and the rumors spin out of control. Then other people get involved … the school, the parents, the lawyers. The incident at the back of the bus becomes the center of Maisie's life and the talk of the school, and, horribly, it becomes news. With just a few words and a touch, the kids and their community are changed forever.

    From nationally acclaimed author Francine Prose comes an unforgettable story about the difficulties of telling the truth, the consequences of lying, and the most dangerous twist of all—the possibility that you yourself will come to believe something that you know isn't true.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperTeen
    Release dateJun 16, 2009
    ISBN9780061920134
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    Francine Prose

    Francine Prose is the author of twenty-two works of fiction including the highly acclaimed The Vixen; Mister Monkey; the New York Times bestseller Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932; A Changed Man, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and Blue Angel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include the highly praised Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, which has become a classic. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director’s Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Prose is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College.

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    • 1/5
      nope didn't like it one bit I kept waiting on it too get better and more interesting but it never did . it just dragged on and on about stuff that honestly wasn't even important . could have been so much better . dont bother reading this book it will only disappoint .
    • 3/5
      Bill Hill is a former minister who used to run the Uni-Faith ministry in Georgia. He's in a man's home when he observes a young man named Juvenal touch the man's wife. She had been blind for over fifteen years and suddenly she can see.Charlie Lawson is the name Juvenal had before entering the Franciscan Monks.Bill is convinced that Juvenal has a healing touch and if he can get him to join Bill in a TV ministry, it could make millions.There are a number of interesting characters, besides Juvenal, one character I enjoyed was August Murray who was a part of a group Outrage that wanted the Church to go back to traditional ways and for Latin to be the language of the church again.This is different from most of the books by Leonard that I've read and I enjoyed Juvenal healing young children who had various afflictions. As a cancer patient, I wish Juvenal could used his healing touch at the New Haven Smilow Cancer Hospital.Overall, a pleasant read with memorable characters and a well described setting.