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Nine Stops from Home

When their rented house is sold, seventeen-year-old Leila Grant moves into a hotel room with her mother and younger brother. School is now nine bus stops away, her drawings barely fit under the bed, and she cannot find a way to tell her best friend where she lives. A summer job at a gallery offers something to work towards. Then she meets Micah, who has plans of his own. A contemporary young adult novel about making room for art, accepting help and choosing what to share when so much of life feels beyond your control.

About 4 hr 4 min · 48 chapters
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Themes and content

  • Housing insecurity
  • Money worries
  • Family conflict

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Novel · 48 chapters · 51,240 words

Available languages: Nederlands, English

AI-assisted novel with editorial work by an AI assistant. Independent human native-language review remains pending.

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The last thing Leila took from her bedroom was the shape the wardrobe had left on the carpet.

She drew it in the corner of a page already covered in other things: the hook behind the door, a dead fly on the windowsill, the small crack above the radiator that looked like a country nobody would want to invade. The wardrobe itself was downstairs, waiting for Janice's brother and his van. Without it, the room had become both larger and less useful.

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Chapters · 48 chapters
  1. 01The House with the Red Door8 minutes
  2. 02Nine Stops8 minutes
  3. 03Room 2147 minutes
  4. 04The Girl at the Window7 minutes
  5. 05A Boy with Sixteen Trolleys7 minutes
  6. 06Household Inventory7 minutes
  7. 07The Place We Kept6 minutes
  8. 08The Boxes in Janice's Garage6 minutes
  9. 09A Room of Her Own for One Night8 minutes
  10. 10The Person Who Needed to Know7 minutes
  11. 11The Second Bag8 minutes
  12. 12Please Describe a Time7 minutes
  13. 13The Place at Dad's Table7 minutes
  14. 14What the Map Left Out6 minutes
  15. 15Four People and a Box of Paper7 minutes
  16. 16The Breakfast Room at Seven6 minutes
  17. 17Almost a Date6 minutes
  18. 18The Train That Didn't Fit6 minutes
  19. 19Somewhere on the Other Side of Town6 minutes
  20. 20One Hour, Mostly7 minutes
  21. 21The Things Esme Didn't Say6 minutes
  22. 22The Match at Half Past Ten6 minutes
  23. 23Sold, Subject to Collection6 minutes
  24. 24The Third Bedroom5 minutes
  25. 25A Name Badge in an Envelope5 minutes
  26. 26Oscar's Blazer5 minutes
  27. 27A Day Off That Wasn't a Day Off6 minutes
  28. 28Where the Netting Caught6 minutes
  29. 29The Page Mum Read5 minutes
  30. 30No Moving Date5 minutes
  31. 31The Long Way to the River5 minutes
  32. 32Room 2085 minutes
  33. 33White Paper4 minutes
  34. 34The Message She Didn't Send4 minutes
  35. 35The Work Nobody Sees4 minutes
  36. 36The Van Dad Actually Brought5 minutes
  37. 37The Part That Was Hers5 minutes
  38. 38Tuesday Wasn't a Promise About Everything5 minutes
  39. 39The Address in Writing4 minutes
  40. 40Full Size4 minutes
  41. 41Nine Stops7 minutes
  42. 42After the Applause That Didn't Happen4 minutes
  43. 43The Notice Beside the Kettle4 minutes
  44. 44Nineteen Steps5 minutes
  45. 45The First Ordinary Argument4 minutes
  46. 46On the Other Side of the Desk4 minutes
  47. 47The Table with Four Chairs4 minutes
  48. 48The Part She Could See4 minutes

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