Best Intentions: When Nothing Ever Goes According to Plan

In the future, some things never change. Sarah Kirushenko is a human child like any other, despite an extreme IQ. Just because she studies classes eight years more advanced than her peers doesn't mean her favorite hobby isn't raising hell with her gang of older brothers, or that she's not stuck watching her baby brother, or getting into bloody fights with her hateful little sister. All she wants is to break the record and have a diploma before her tenth birthday. But the year 2263 is no shining star for Sarah and her many siblings. Dragged around the galaxy by their archeologist father, they harbor a shocking load of secrets. No one ever planned on bad luck, but tragedy and violence have stalked their family for generations. Trapped on the blistering wastelands of Navara, far from the Russian home they long for, things are quickly going from bad to unbearable. When it seems like nothing can possibly get worse, Father is arrested for murder. Can twelve children raise themselves on an alien world? Will Sarah survive with her education - and her sanity - intact?

Author: Susan Staneslow Olesen
Publisher: Laughing Rabbit Productions
Published: 04/12/2011
Pages: 364
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780615460383

About the Author
Susan Staneslow Olesen is a graduate of the Chase Collegiate School and studied psychology and writing at Wells College. She is a special-needs foster parent with more than 20 years experience in autism. She has worked all aspects of special education from birth to adult, taught creative writing and beginning Russian language for adult education, spent several years fostering kittens for a local shelter, won several awards for art and costuming, and is a perpetual pest at science-fiction conventions in the Baltimore area. When not writing or intervening, she works as a Tech Assistant for her local public library. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, five children, three dogs, three cats, and a Dumbo rat named Fatticus. On occasion, she has been known to sleep.

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