When You're A World Apart

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Reads 251
Votes 24
Parts 3
Time 31m

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11-year-old Leslie's wonderful life shatters when her family perishes in a car crash. Instead of entering the standard foster care system, however, she mysteriously winds up in an idyllic orphanage. Sympathetic counselors, supportive friends, home-cooked meals: what more can an orphaned girl need to overcome a trauma? Everything seems perfect until her newfound friend gets third-degree burns from unpolluted rain. Suddenly, Leslie is determined to unearth the truth behind her family's deaths. How will one girl try to overcome scary hallucinations and nightmarish memories to get to the bottom of her secret-plagued life?

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