Map to the Stars by Jen Malone Can one down-to-earth girl plus a very famous boy and a whole lot of paparazzi ever add up to a perfect Hollywood ending? Seventeen-year-old Annie Shelton isn't sure why her mom thinks moving to Hollywood will allow them to escape the drama of their small-time life in Georgia, but she's along for the ride. A story of before and after, of new beginnings and never-endings. And so begins a story of pain and promise, of heartbreak and healing, of life and death. To be with him would change my life in ways I could never have imagined. But he was also strange and exotic and beautiful. But babies grow up to be kids, and kids grow up to be teenagers.

It all happened before I was born, and by the time I met Moses and my mom told me all about him, the story was old news and nobody wanted anything to do with him.

Maybe the fact that he was broken drew me to him from the start. I knew that wasn't what the term meant, but the image stuck in my mind. I imagined the crack baby, Moses, having a giant crack that ran down his body, like he'd been broken at birth. They called him Baby Moses when they shared his story on the ten o'clock news - the little baby left in a basket at a dingy Laundromat, born to a crack addict and expected to have all sorts of problems. The Law of Moses by Amy Harmon Someone found him in a laundry basket at the Quick Wash, wrapped in a towel, a few hours old and close to death.

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