Authoring
Three weeks ago I tried to run away from home. Now all I want is to go back.
Sixteen-year-old 
Taylor Truwell is a troubled girl with a neglectful mother, a callous father and an urge to flee. When Taylor is caught with a stolen car and lands in court for resisting arrest, her father convinces the judge to issue an alternative punishment: treatment in a juvenile psychiactric correctional facility. And so Taylor arrives at Sunny Meadows.
Taylor Truwell is a troubled girl with a neglectful mother, a callous father and an urge to flee. When Taylor is caught with a stolen car and lands in court for resisting arrest, her father convinces the judge to issue an alternative punishment: treatment in a juvenile psychiactric correctional facility. And so Taylor arrives at Sunny Meadows.Sunny Meadows is anything but the easy way out, and Taylor has to fight hard just to cling to her sanity as she battles her parents, her therapist, and a group of particularly nasty fellow patients, the Latina Queens. But even as Taylor struggles to hold on to her stubborn former self, she finds herself relenting as she lets in two unlikely friends–Margo, a former child star and arsonist, and AJ, a mysterious boy who doesn’t speak.
Sunny Meadows goes against everything Taylor stands for. But is it the only place that can save her?
COUNTING BACKWARDS is Laura Lascarso’s debut novel to be released by Atheneum (Simon & Schuster) in August 2012. She lives in in North Florida with her darling husband, two children, three chickens and a dog named Lucy.
Want to send her (me) a message? Leave a comment on the contact page.
