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Recovery Road by Blake Nelson
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Recovery Road (edition 2011)

by Blake Nelson

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While she is in a rehabilitation facility for drug and alcohol abuse, seventeen-year-old Maddie meets Stewart, who is also in treatment, and they begin a relationship, which they try to maintain after they both get out.
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Title:Recovery Road
Authors:Blake Nelson
Info:Scholastic Press (2011), Edition: 1, Hardcover, 320 pages
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Absolutely loved this book!! I love most Blake Nelson books!!! He makes me want to move to Oregon but I have yet to go! ( )
  closingcell | Jun 27, 2022 |
I read this because I enjoyed watching the first 3 episodes of the TV show that's coming out in January. Well the TV show is nothing like the book... at least so far. the book was okay. good ending. ( )
1 vote mleivers | Aug 29, 2016 |
Great and unexpected. ( )
  ChelseaClaudett | Mar 8, 2016 |
Loved this book. Devoured it in a few hours, my eyes glued to the page. I dug Nelson's [b:Destroy All Cars|5711736|Destroy All Cars|Blake Nelson|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1296986925s/5711736.jpg|5883347], but thought it suffered from the lack of an ending. Recovery Road does not. It's a truly satisfying journey. We meet Maddie when she's in rehab, and we leave her a long way from there. This book is about the trip, and about growing up. It's a lovely book. I liked that it was set in Portland, and it was extra cool to be reading about Maddie riding the Max train while I was doing the same thing. ( )
  satyridae | Apr 5, 2013 |
I read Recovery Road in one night. This is the first book I’ve read by Blake Nelson and I enjoyed it. The characters are brought to life and with a subject such as teen drug abuse, it would be easy to make caricatures of the Madeline and Stewart but the book doesn’t go there.

Madeline is sent to rehab because she’s pretty out of control. While in rehab Madeline makes friends with Trish, much to her surprise, and begins to realize she needs to clean herself up. After she leaves rehab to moves to a halfway house, and there she meets Stewart. Stewart is in a different halfway house and is also a recovering addict. Maddie is instantly attracted to him when they meet on a bus in their way to movie night. They begin to go to movie night every week so they can see each other.

Maddie is able to go home before Stewart and she works hard in school and wants to go to college. She keeps in touch with Trish and how Trish is doing outside of rehab. When Stewart is released, he and Maddie get together and the question is, can they help each other or will they end up harming each other?

I really liked the twists and turns of Recovery Road. It is a fast read but only because you can’t wait to find out what happens to these characters you’ve grown to care about.
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  Tracey8824 | Apr 3, 2013 |
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And Something's odd-- within-- That person that I was--And this One--do not feel the same.  --Emily Dickinson
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To Nicholas, Fahs, Gordon, and Skiegs and all my brothers at PS 51.
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You can't tell what Spring Meadow is from the road.
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While she is in a rehabilitation facility for drug and alcohol abuse, seventeen-year-old Maddie meets Stewart, who is also in treatment, and they begin a relationship, which they try to maintain after they both get out.

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Blake Nelson is the author of my all-time favourite book, Girl, a coming-of-age story for an indie rocker, which I totally identified with at 16. This book doesn't live up to Girl (Can anything?) but it's still a good YA read regardless. A high schooler is sent to rehab, hates it, but finds love in rehab with another former addict. She returns to high school, which she hates, but struggles to remain clean, and reverse her life. Good story.
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