Runaway Girl: Where has she come from? Why is she so scared?

Fourteen-year-old Adrianna arrives on Casey?s doorstep with no possessions no English and no explanation. It will be a few weeks before Casey starts getting the shocking answers to her questions?.Brought to Casey as a short-term emergency placement fourteen-year-old Adrianna arrives with nothing but her gratitude. Having ?turned herself in? to a social services office some hundred miles away she has no possessions no English and apparently no history ? not that she?s willing to share anyway. She is a beautiful young Polish girl with the bearing of a ballerina but is terrified malnourished and unwell. And having slept rough for some time (the little they do know about her) she spends much of her first days with Watsons asleep in bed.Growing concerned about Adrianna?s wellbeing and her persistent high temperature Casey decides to call in the GP. But to her surprise Adrianna becomes almost hysterical about being examined and given her refusal to talk ? even via the interpreter they?ve brought in for her ? Casey?s fostering antennae begin twitching. Where has she come from? And why is she so terrified to be touched? What has happened to make her so ill and scared?It will be a few weeks before Casey starts getting answers to these questions. Shocking answers; ones that throw up a whole host of new questions and the beginnings of a journey to find justice for Adrianna and more importantly a future and a home?

Paperback: 304 pages

Publisher: Harper Element (September 5 2017)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0008244235

ISBN-13: 978-0008244231

Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 7.8 inches

Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces