My name is Natasha. I am 16. I came here from Bosnia a year ago. I thought I was going to be a housekeeper or do cleaning work. I met a man at the airport and he gave me a ticket and a passport and a friend of his met m

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Excerpts from Natasha Friend’s acceptance speech at the NLA/NEMA Conference October 26, 2007 Transcribed with the author’s permission Small wonder I became a writer as I spent the vast majority of my childhood in the

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RHODE ISLAND TEEN BOOK AWARD 2008 …and the winner is 1. Lush by Natasha Friend 85 2. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer 79 3. Breathe: A Ghost Story by Cliff McNish 59

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2007 RITBA Results 1st Place: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (117 votes) 2nd Place: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan[removed]votes) 3rd Place: Perfect by Natasha Friend[removed]votes) 4th Uglies by Scott Westerfield (89 vot

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