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by Shannon Tessari (Author)
Storm Rogers has spent her life waiting.
Not for a ride. Not for a second chance.
For someone-anyone-to finally choose her.
Since the age of five, Storm has been passed from one home to another-foster homes, group homes, hospital rooms-each one a temporary stop in a life that never seems to begin. Every move carries the same quiet message: you are not wanted here.
Told through the raw, unfiltered pages of her journal, Diary of a Throwaway Kid is an intimate portrait of a girl growing up inside a system that was supposed to protect her-and didn't.
Storm's voice is sharp, observant, and unexpectedly funny. She tells the truth the way only someone with nothing left to lose can-cutting through pain with wit, defiance, and moments of aching vulnerability.
But beneath the anger and heartbreak is something far more dangerous:
Hope.
This is a story about what happens when a child is forgotten.
And what it takes to keep believing in love anyway.
Unflinching and deeply human, Diary of a Throwaway Kid is a powerful literary novel about survival, resilience, and the desperate, enduring search for a place to belong.
With clarity and emotional precision, Diary of a Throwaway Kid captures the instability of a childhood spent moving from one placement to another. Storm's voice is authentic and memorable, revealing the quiet toll of abandonment alongside an unyielding will to endure. The journal format deepens the immediacy of the story, inviting readers into moments of pain, resilience, and self-discovery that feel deeply real and impossible to forget." -NewInBooks.com "An unflinching story of resilience in a world that repeatedly lets a child down." -NewInBooks.com
