I will Save You / Matt de la Pena / 310 pages

Kidd Ellison escapes from Horizons, a home for psychologically disturbed individuals.  He has suffered severe depression due to the deaths of his parents and has hurt himself repeatedly.  When he runs away he gets a job helping the handyman, a retired surfer/alcoholic, at a campgrounds.  He falls in love with Olivia, a beautiful girl who constantly wears a ski cap to hide her disfiguring birthmark.  For the first time in his life Kidd feels like a real person and has hope.  A terrible "accident" occurs and we learn something shocking about Kidd.  "I don't think people can truly know one another.  I mean, really know... We only reveal what we want other people to know.  It's like we create these fictional characters for the public, and inside we're somebody totally different."