The suburban street of Elmwood Lane was a study in beige until the moving truck arrived at the house next door to Leo’s. It was 2007, the year of low-rise jeans, Razr phones, and a soundtrack of pop-punk that seemed to hum through every teenager's bedroom walls.
Plot: Set in 1958, it follows two orphaned sisters placed in the care of their mentally unstable aunt, Ruth Chandler, who subjects them to extreme abuse while involving the neighborhood children. Index Of The Girl Next Door -2007-
Cons:
To the rest of the neighborhood, they were just two kids killing time before senior year. But in the quiet space between their houses, a world was forming. It was found in the way Maya could tell Leo was stressed just by the pace of his pacing, and the way Leo kept a stash of her favorite sour candies in his glove box "just because." The suburban street of Elmwood Lane was a