The Skin of Water — Cristina Salat

Lisel Martinez is not a rough-&-tumble girl, so what is someone who is more interested in books and plants than a hot social life doing on the streets of San Francisco...and is there anything a 16-year-old who no longer has a home can do to keep herself safe in a world that seems anything but? From the author of the award-winning Living In Secret ("courageous, thought-provoking," Publishers Weekly), Esoterica, Paradise Found, and Alias Diamond Jones comes the contemporary quest of one modern-day pueblo teen as she travels from the sunlit mesas of New Mexico to the night lights of California searching for a life different than the one that seems destined to be her fate. Empowerment is just a word...until you live it.