Shock Point

Shock Point by April Henry is a mystery about a girl who knows too much.

Cassie Streng has just moved to Portland, Oregon with her mother and her new stepfather, Rick. Rick is a psychiatrist involved in a drug trial for a new teen drug to modify behavior.

But Cassie soon finds out that three of her classmates, all of whom committed suicide, were his patients. They were all on the experimental drug. And her family moved right after the last death.

She has to do something to stop more kids from dying. But before she can say anything about it, a white van shows up and kidnaps her. Her stepfather has convinced her mother to send her to a school for troubled kids. He claims he found drugs in her room.

Only the school is not a school - it is a prison. It is in Mexico where the laws are more fluid. She has to find a way to escape, find her way back to Oregon, and stop the drug trials.

Henry, April. (2006). Shock Point. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.