SHELTER
Harlan Coben
Penguin Group
2012
Available:
paperback, Kindle, hardcover, CD
The opening paragraph of the novel sums up sophomore Mickey Boliter's
world.
"I was walking to School, lost in feeling sorry for
myself___ my dad was dead, my mom in rehab, my girlfriend missing___
when I saw the Bat lady for the first time."
Mickey hasn't had what most kids would call a normal life. He and his
parents traveled and lived all over the world. When Mickey finishes his
home-schooled eighth grade year, the family moves back to America so he can go
to high school. But then everything goes wrong. His father is killed. His
mother can handle it and goes into a tale-spin that lands her in a
rehabilitation center for drugs. And Mickey is left to live with his uncle
Myron, who seems more like a stranger than
