Near is perfect-- somewhere where her father never cheated, her mother never drank, and her own life never derailed so suddenly. Magpie Lewis started writing in her yellow notebook the night her sister Eryn skipped town and left her to fend for herself. That was the night of Brandon Phipp's party. Now, Magpie is called a slut whenever she walks down the hallways of her high school, her former best friend won't speak to her, and she spends her lunch period with a group of misfits who've all been socially exiled like she has. She has written Near into existence. And in Near, Magpie can have anything she wants... even revenge. -- adapted from jacket