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Burning Blue by Paul Griffin This Girl named Nicole Castro gets acid thrown in her face one day at school. She has to have surgery and has to go to a therapist. She befriends a guy named Jay. Jay is secretly a hacker; he can hack almost and anything. He is afraid that the FBI is on his trail of hacking. Jay’s dad is an art critic and seems to be drunk most of the time. Jay’s mom was killed in a car accident, his father was driving and he was also intoxicated at the time. After Nicole and Jay hang out together, Jay starts a list of people who might be the acid thrower, or as Jay calls him the “Perp”. Jay lists off her therapist and friends, a strange girl named Angela helps him. One time the year before, Angela went to school drunk.

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