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Position:Home>Books & Authors> Looking for title of book?Question: Looking for title of book!? I am looking for the title of a book that I read several years ago!. It is about a teenage girl who is put into an institution for youth with problems!. She occasionally blacksout and wanders through tunnels!. She runs into a boy who is also having problems in his life in the tunnels; she also goes to school with the boy!. They eventually help each other overcome their problems!.
I need the title to the book please!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: "The Dream Where The Losers Go" by Beth Goobie http://www!.amazon!.com/Dream-Where-Losers!.!.!. " contains elements of both fantasy and hard-edge realism!. At night, 16-year-old Skey dreams of dark tunnels!. During the day, she is usually aware of her surroundings, a facility for troubled teens where she has lived since a suicide attempt!. But even awake, she can slip into the comforting tunnels that keep her mind safe and where she encounters a wandering boy much like herself!. Because her recovery seems to be going so well, Skey begins to attend school during the day!. There she hesitantly rejoins her gang of old friends, led by her boyfriend, Jigger!. The teens are alluring and dangerous and seem to hold the key to the trauma that pushed Skey over the edge!. The deep bonding of a first sexual relationship is exquisitely portrayed, even as Jigger's controlling behavior escalates toward violence!. Readers will be held breathless as Skey begins to discover the truth about the gang and its terrible hold over her!. Her journey is partly in the real world and partly through the tunnels, the dreams where losers go to find what they have lost!. Through her growing friendship with the wandering boy, and the damaged classmate he so closely resembles, Skey ultimately summons the courage to save herself and her new friend!."Www@QuestionHome@Com This is probably not what you are looking for!. There was a movie in the 1960s of two teenagers with mental health problems!. They met in a mental institution and help each other out!. Don't recall tunnels!. The movie's name is "David & Lisa"Www@QuestionHome@Com If you go to a site like www!.abesbooks!.com; they have a place where you can ask & they will search for you!. They sell mainly used books, & textbooks, but are very helpful!. Good luck! (it might be abebooks; try it with the s 1st, if it doesn't get you there, try it without the s!)Www@QuestionHome@Com |