The Game: Haunting Teen Fiction

By Teresa Toten

Dani Webster had played The Game with her sister, Kelly, for as long as she could remember. It was a secret quest to vanquish evil. The Game is now a hazy memory as Dani looks up from the floor of the isolation room at Riverwood Clinic. God, how did she get here? She remembers the vodka and pills.

Slowly Dani emerges from the painful effects of substance abuse, and begins to adapt to life at Riverwood, a psychiatric treatment facility for "teens with problems."

As she recovers from her physical trauma, Dani must confront a deeper emotional trauma, which at the moment she can neither explain nor recognize. There's the cool aloofness of her mother. Her father's abusive perfectionism. Kelly's refusal to answer her letters. Fragmented memories of the last Game. She can't fit all the pieces together.

The Game is an extraordinary story of betrayal, anger, guilt, confusion and dread, and their brutal effects on the mind. It also a tribute to the healing effects of compassion and friendship, and to the strength we can summon, even in our weakest moments.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889952329
• ISBN13: 9780889952324
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Red Deer Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

the game

i really liked this book, it was a bit confusing with all the different points of view (letters, transcripts, third person narroration) but it all comes togethe in the end. i love how you get to see the point of a girl we wouldnt consider to be "perfect"