Pearson, Gayle <br/><br/>
Don't call it paradise / 
by Gayle Pearson. 
 - New York :  Atheneum Books for Young Readers,  1999. 
 - 153p. 
<br/><br/> Summary: When thirteen-year-old Maddie goes to visit her best friend Beanie in California, she hopes that Beanie's older brother has changed, but she slowly recalls a terrible secret from the past that makes her realize just what kind of person he really is. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-689-82579-X 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Brothers and sisters--Fiction<br/>Friendship--Fiction<br/>Self-perception--Fiction