Vicious Cycle
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Blackstock, Terri, 1957-
Vicious cycle: an intervention novel / Terri Blackstock.
p. cm. — (Intervention)
ISBN 978-0-310-25067-8 ( pbk.)
1. Teenage boys — Fiction. 2. Newborn infants — Fiction. 3. Abandoned children — Fiction. 4. Children of drug addicts — Fiction. 5. Drug addiction — Fiction. 6. Human trafficking — Fiction. I. Title.
PS3552.L34285V53 2011
813’.54 – dc22 2010039776
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