Description: Fifteen-year-old Julian Drew is locked into his garage bedroom every night by his brutal father and abusive stepmother, made to pee in a can, starved, belittled, and sometimes beaten. One fall day, he buys a cheap notebook (NB) at a drugstore in Tucson, Arizona, and begins writing in a simple code to someone he calls U. Word by mysterious word, his NBs become a refuge from his bewildering circumstances. He writes of his pain, his fragile contacts with a teacher and a troubled girl he calls S, and the moment when he turns from writing to action and embarks on a remarkable journey to solve the puzzle of his life.

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