James Lorimer, Toronto, 2008, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 1-55277-022-2 / 978-1-55277-022-1.  MMPB, 220 pages.  Unread copy, very light edge wear; pages very lightly tanning.  Earlier version entitled Dark End of Dream Street.  ‘Tara thought she could handle anything.  But now her life is falling apart.  Just when Tara needs her friends, her parents, and her boyfriend most, they aren’t there for her.  Tara soon realizes that she’s not so different from her best friend Jenn, who runs away from her unstable home life, panhandles for money, and spends her nights in an abandoned building called Hell’s Hotel.  Tara comes to understand what it is like to live without a place to call home, and how it feels to be scared and alone.’ (from rear wrap)