Torched, by April Henry

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Torched, by April Henry
Young Adult, 2009

Elise is a completely normal teenager with hippie-picketing-smoking-pot parents who always have a 'cause'. When the police arrest them, she makes a deal with the FBI - join/infiltrate MEDic, the environmentalist teen group, and give them the proof they need and no one will go to jail. But when things go unexpected, does she have the guts to save her family, stick up for what she believes in, and keep the guy she's fallen for?
First, the cover. It totally looks like a romance novel, but if you look closely, that's a forest burning up. Although, this is a shorter work, it deals with some interesting issues, and looks at them from both sides. For example, they torch a hummer dealership, but the pollution they caused from the fire and the sales the dealership got as a result of the media sort of nixed the work they did. The tree-sits they do only save one or two trees, and blowing up the equipment might start a forest fire, so the question is: Is violence the only way for people to stand up and pay attention to their causes? Some interesting questions, but in the end kind of 'eh'. Graded a C+.