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On a serious note, while PEMA is an imaginary illness, the plight of children in the foster-care system is very real. As a society we are largely failing these kids, but there are organizations that advocate for them, including Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children (www.casaforchildren.org) and the Children’s Defense Fund (www.childrensdefense.org). And you don’t have to be an adult to help—the American Academy of Pediatrics has a list of suggestions for teens, including starting a backpack program so that children in foster care have items for school. More information is available at www.aap.org/fostercare/advocacy.html.

About the Author

MICHELLE GAGNON
has been a modern dancer, a dog walker, a bartender, a freelance journalist, a personal trainer, and a model. Her bestselling thrillers for adults have been published in numerous countries and include
THE TUNNELS, BONEYARD, THE GATEKEEPER
, and
KIDNAP & RANSOM
. This is her first novel for young adults. You can visit her on the web at www.michellegagnon.com.

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Credits

Cover design by Erin Fitzsimmons

“Persephone, Falling” by Rita Dove, from her poetry book

Mother Love,
W. W. Norton & Co., New York, 1995.

Reprinted by permission of Rita Dove.

Don’t Turn Around

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gagnon, Michelle.

Don’t turn around / by Michelle Gagnon.—1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: After waking up on an operating table with no memory of how she got there, Noa must team up with computer hacker Peter to stop a corrupt corporation with a deadly secret.

ISBN 978-0-06-210290-4

EPub Edition © JULY 2012 ISBN 9780062102928

[1. Computer hackers—Fiction. 2. Experiments—Fiction. 3. Foster home care—Fiction. 4. Abandoned children—Fiction.] I. Title. II. Title: Don’t turn around.