Sixteen-year-old Maxine Marmarino is stronger than she looks. She's grown up Italian to the core in the Big Apple, just her and Dad against the world. He's been her champion and that's enough for her-until he dies. Max is cast adrift in the Social Services network of New York City with nothing to her name except what she can fit in a backpack. When she's shipped upstate, armed with her father's leather jacket, his army shirt, and an attitude that...