Claudine’s life is unrecognizable. After family tragedy strikes and Claude leaves the only home she has ever known, she and her mother take the adventure of a lifetime—spending the summer on an island, away from their troubles and away from the pain back home. Both tragic and mesmerizing, Breathless is an abrupt, lyrical novel about […]
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Izzie is slipping, falling, unable to stand back up on her own two feet. She feels alone, isolated, her words unable to be heard by Jacob, by her mother, and especially by her best friend, Grace. The Sky Is Mine by Amy Beashel is a harrowing and painful look at the violent, tragic experiences of […]
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Lydia thought she had her life planned out with her boyfriend, Freddie. They had ordinary lives, ordinary jobs, and an ordinary, wonderful life together. But when tragedy strikes, Lydia must reevaluate her future and try to find some solace in a world without Freddie. Both tragic and ultimately uplifting, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird […]
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First there was the world of Divergent, full of romance and breath-taking risks. And then came Carve the Mark, a fantastical, re-imagined world. Now, Veronica Roth introduces readers into various new worlds in her anthology The End and Other Beginnings. With disturbing and moving accounts of the effects of technology and life in the future, […]
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“Give your fears a name. It takes away their power. Then tell me what you like and what you want to be.” Danny wants to live without fear, but everything inside of her tells her to be afraid. When she crashes, she has the choice: to be consumed by fear or to listen to the […]
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Zafira takes risks—risks that could destroy her and her cause. Nasir is a killer, death the only language that flows naturally. We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal is a fast-paced, explosive YA fantasy that challenges gender roles and the means one will take to survive. In the same vein as An Ember in the […]
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Celebrity memoirs can tend to be a hit or miss with audiences. Some have two-hundred plus pages of repetitive anecdotes of little interest to the readers while others dig deep, profoundly revealing the secret lives of those we see on both the big and small screen. Tan France, star of the Netflix series Queer Eye, […]
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Chris is on the verge of exploding, living with his aunt because he is too much of a burden for his parents. Maia is struggling with the unexplained death of her sister. When Chris moves into his aunt’s small town, everything feels uncertain, except when he finally begins to open up to Maia, the girl […]
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Hungry Hearts Row, a place filled with romance and the smells of wonderful concoctions lingering in the air, simmering and tantalizing. Hungry Hearts—an anthology with esteemed YA writers such as Jay Coles and Adi Alsaid—is a charming, simple, and uplifting collection of teen stories that speak to the issues of loneliness, family, and the desire […]
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