History Literature / ShockPoint

* SleepingWithTheBoss: A year ago, Jackie and Cassie lived in a duplex in Minor. Then Rick hired Jackie as his study coordinator. Before Cassie knew it, Jackie was pregnant by Rick, the two got married, and Rick moved the family to Portland. Cassie thinks he wanted to flee Minor so his patients' families wouldn't find out what he'd done.

* ThirstyDesert: Peaceful Cove is surrounded by miles and miles of desert. The last kid who tried to escape was later found dead in the desert. [[spoiler:Cassie escapes with half a gallon of water. She spends about twenty-four hours hiking through the desert, during which she drinks all her water and becomes very dehydrated.]]

* VictoriasSecret: Hayley secretly prints out instructions for how to use the compass in Cassie's watch and hides them in her bra. She smuggles the paper to Cassie, who puts it in her own bra.

* ChekhovsGun: Jackie naively backs a snorkel and flippers in Cassie's suitcase. Of course, there is no snorkeling at Peaceful Cove. The staff puts Cassie's suitcase in a closet with all the other inmates' possessions, and she doesn't see it for over two months. [[spoiler:Until she uses the snorkel to swim out through the pipe that runs under the compound wall and opens into a stream about twenty feet later.]]

Fifteen-year-old Cassie Streng discovers that her stepfather Rick Wheeler, a psychiatrist who works with troubled teens, has been prescribing an experimental behavioral drug that causes delusions and suicidal urges, hiding evidence of its side effects, and forging patients' parents' signatures. Cassie tries to expose him, but before she can get an adult to take her seriously, Rick persuades her mom to send her to Peaceful Cove, a behavioral modification school in Mexico. Inmates at Peaceful Cove are cut off from all contact with the outside world, fed inadequate food, and punished for minor infractions with days in observation placement, in which they spend all day lying on their stomachs on the floor. But despite the rules forbidding low-ranking kids from talking to each other, Cassie manages to befriend Hayley, a girl who's been in Peaceful Cove for over two years.

* IKissYourFeet: One boy is so desperate to get out of observation placement that he starts crying and kissing a staff member's shoes.

Fifteen-year-old Cassie Streng discovers that her stepfather Rick Wheeler, a psychiatrist who works with troubled teens, has been prescribing a behavioral drug that causes delusions and suicidal urges and forging patients' parents' signatures. Cassie tries to expose him, but before she can get an adult to take her seriously, Rick persuades her mom to send her to Peaceful Cove, a behavioral modification school in Mexico. Inmates at Peaceful Cove are cut off from all contact with the outside world, fed inadequate food, and punished for minor infractions with days in observation placement, in which they spend all day lying on their stomachs on the floor. But despite the rules forbidding low-ranking kids from talking to each other, Cassie manages to befriend Hayley, a girl who's been in Peaceful Cove for over two years.

Fifteen-year-old Cassie Streng discovers that her stepfather Rick Wheeler, a psychiatrist who works with troubled teens, has been prescribing a behavioral drug that causes delusions and suicidal urges and forging patients' parents' signatures. Cassie tries to expose him, but before she can get an adult to take her seriously, Rick persuades her mom to send her to Peaceful Cove, a behavioral modification school in Mexico. Inmates at Peaceful Cove are cut off from all contact with the outside world, fed inadequate food, and punished for minor infractions with days in observation placement, in which they spend all day lying on their stomachs on a concrete floor. But despite the rules forbidding low-ranking kids from talking to each other, Cassie manages to befriend Hayley, a girl who's been in Peaceful Cove for over two years.