02033cam a2200301 4500 759641570 TxAuBib 20200903120000.0 191120s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781542019804 hbk. $16.99 154201980X hbk. $16.99 (OCoLC)1128029265 YDX eng rda YDX BDX OCLCQ ON8 UAP ILC GO6 OCLCO TxGR TxAuBib Elison, Meg, author. Find Layla [Book] : a novel / Meg Elison. First edition. New York : Skyscape, [2020] 179 pages ; 22 cm. Underprivileged and keenly self-aware, SoCal fourteen-year-old Layla Bailey isn't used to being noticed. Except by mean girls who tweet about her ragged appearance. All she wants to do is indulge in her love of science, protect her vulnerable younger brother, and steer clear of her unstable mother. Then a school competition calls for a biome. Layla chooses her own home, a hostile ecosystem of indoor fungi and secret shame. With a borrowed video camera, she captures it all. The mushrooms growing in her brother's dresser. The black mold blooming up the apartment walls. The unmentionable things living in the dead fridge. All the inevitable exotic toxins that are Layla's life. Then the video goes viral. When Child Protective Services comes to call, Layla loses her family and her home. Defiant, she must face her bullies and friends alike, on her own. Unafraid at last of being seen, Layla accepts the mortifying reality of visibility. Now she has to figure out how to stay whole and stand behind the truth she has shown the world. 20200903. Teenage girls Fiction. Low-income high school students Fiction. Child abuse Fiction. Social media Fiction. California Fiction. Young adult fiction. RV8