Taking It

By Michael Cadnum

Book Overview

Seventeen-year-old Anna Charles, who has turned shoplifting into an art form and a way to vent frustration, feels her confidence crumbling when she begins finding things she does not remember... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670861308
• ISBN13: 9780670861309
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

A strong and beautifully written novel with many layers

Michael Cadnum, a master at subtle and complex stories of coming-of-age, has here written an engrossing story about a thoroughly unlikeable seventeen-year-old who cannot control her own impulses to steal--until she hits bottom and begins to realize there are some people she can trust. Not a book for young or unsophisticated teens, this takes some literary smarts on the part of the reader.