The Prince of Venice Beach is a 2014

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Plot summary

The book follows a seventeen-year-old runaway named Robert "Cali" Callahan who is hired to track down other runaway youth. What should be a simple assignment quickly becomes something more when he finds and falls in love with Reese Abernathy who is hiding from more than just her family. The books takes place around

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. A place known not only for its gritty

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and surf culture but also for its large population of homeless and

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driven there by the warm weather.

Published

The Prince of Venice Beach was published by the Hachette Book Group in June 2014.

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American young adult novels Novels by Blake Nelson 2014 American novels Novels set in Los Angeles Venice, Los Angeles Little, Brown and Company books Surfing in California
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