Blink and Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones 342 pages

This Canadian author has won many awards for this superior flights of fantasy for children and young adults. This is quite different from his earlier story. It is written in the second person alternating two different points of view, both young people on the run lacking traditional family support. Blink, a young man living on the street, overhears a loud noise in a hotel where he is trying to scrounge a free meal off cast off trays. When he sees a hotel key dropped by one of the guys departing from that room, he decides to use the key to check the room for a possible corpse. Instead, he finds a blackberry, a wallet with money and a picture of a young girl. Later, it appears that he had witnessed a kidnapping of a high profile developer. Meanwhile, Caution, is barely surviving as a plaything of a drug dealer. She is punishing herself for a horrible accident that cost her beloved brother's life. When she discovers the drug dealer is fooling around with a neighbor, she trashes the joint and leaves with his cash stash. Their two lives connect and their miserable lives find meaning. A bit grimey, but believable. Readers will empathize with these two lost souls.