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Counting Backwards by Laura Lascarso is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Counting Backwards about?

In this haunting and hopeful debut novel, a teen's court-mandated psychiatric residency prompts a change in perspective from which there is no looking back. Taylor Truwell is a sixteen-year-old girl from Florida with a troubled past, a neglectful mother, a seemingly callous father, and an urge to flee. When Taylor is caught with a stolen car, her violent reaction lands her in court for resisting arrest. Her father convinces the judge of an alternative to punishment: treatment in a juvenile psychiatric 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 hold on to her sanity as she battles her parents, an intrusive therapist, and a group of particularly nasty fellow patients. But even as Taylor clings to her stubborn former self, she gradually relents to new friendships--and to unexpected romance. Sunny Meadows goes against everything Taylor stands for. But could it be the place that saves her? In this striking debut, Laura Lascarso weaves together a powerful story of anger and self-destruction, hope and love, and the complicated way that it all comes together.

Who reads Counting Backwards?

Author

Laura Lascarso

Publisher

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781442406919

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Children'S, Young Adult

Rating

3.76 / 5 (574 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14