The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds
Just when seventeen-year-old Matt thinks he can’t handle one
more piece of terrible news, he meets a girl who’s dealt with a lot more—and
who just might be able to clue him in on how to rise up when life keeps
knocking him down—in this “vivid, satisfying, and ultimately upbeat tale of
grief, redemption, and grace” (Kirkus Reviews) from the Coretta Scott King –
John Steptoe Award–winning author of When I Was the Greatest.
Matt wears a black suit every day. No, not because his mom
died—although she did, and it sucks. But he wears the suit for his gig at the
local funeral home, which pays way better than the Cluck Bucket, and he needs
the income since his dad can’t handle the bills (or anything, really) on his
own. So while Dad’s snagging bottles of whiskey, Matt’s snagging fifteen bucks
an hour. Not bad. But everything else? Not good. Then Matt meets Lovey. Crazy
name, and she’s been through more crazy stuff than he can imagine. Yet Lovey
never cries. She’s tough. Really tough. Tough in the way Matt wishes he could
be. Which is maybe why he’s drawn to her, and definitely why he can’t seem to
shake her. Because there’s nothing more hopeful than finding a person who
understands your loneliness—and who can maybe even help take it away. –Amazon Description
Gabi, A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
Gabi Hernandez chronicles her last year in high school in
her diary: college applications, Cindy's pregnancy, Sebastian's coming out, the
cute boys, her father's meth habit, and the food she craves. And best of all,
the poetry that helps forge her identity.
July 24
My mother named me Gabriella, after my grandmother who,
coincidentally, didn't want to meet me when I was born because my mother was
unmarried, and therefore living in sin. My mom has told me the story many,
many, MANY, times of how, when she confessed to my grandmother that she was
pregnant with me, her mother beat her. BEAT HER! She was twenty-five. That
story is the basis of my sexual education and has reiterated why it's important
to wait until you're married to give it up. So now, every time I go out with a
guy, my mom says, "Ojos abiertos, piernas cerradas." Eyes open, legs
closed. That's as far as the birds and the bees talk has gone. And I don't mind
it. I don't necessarily agree with that whole wait until you're married crap,
though. I mean, this is America and the 21st century; not Mexico one hundred
years ago. But, of course, I can't tell my mom that because she will think I'm
bad. Or worse: trying to be White. –Amazon Description
Glass Arrow by Kristen Simmons
Once there was a time when men and women lived as equals,
when girl babies were valued, and women could belong only to themselves. But
that was ten generations ago. Now women are property, to be sold and owned and
bred, while a strict census keeps their numbers manageable and under control.
The best any girl can hope for is to end up as some man's forever wife, but
most are simply sold and resold until they're all used up.
Only in the wilderness, away from the city, can true freedom
be found. Aya has spent her whole life in the mountains, looking out for her
family and hiding from the world, until the day the Trackers finally catch her.
Stolen from her home, and being groomed for auction, Aya is
desperate to escape her fate and return to her family, but her only allies are
a loyal wolf she's raised from a pup and a strange mute boy who may be her best
hope for freedom . . . if she can truly trust him.
The Glass Arrow is a haunting, yet hopeful, new novel from
Kristen Simmons, the author of the popular Article 5 trilogy –Amazon
Description
I was Here by Gayle Forman
When her best friend, Meg, commits suicide by drinking a
bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, Cody is
understandably shocked and devastated. She and Meg shared everything—so how did
she miss the signs of Meg's depression? But when Cody travels to Meg’s college
town to pack up the belongings left behind, she discovers that there’s a lot
that Meg never told her. About her old roommates, the sort of people Cody never
would have met in her dead-end small town in Washington. About Ben McAllister,
the boy with a guitar and a sneer, and some secrets of his own. And about an
encrypted computer file that Cody can’t open—until she does, and suddenly
everything Cody thought she knew about her best friend’s death gets thrown into
question. –Amazon Description
I'm Glad I Did by Cynthia Weil
Mad Men meets Nashville in this debut mystery set in 1963,
written by Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Cynthia Weil.
It’s the summer of 1963 and JJ Green is a born
songwriter—which is a major problem, considering that her family thinks the
music business is a cesspool of lowlifes and hustlers. Defying them, she takes
an internship at the Brill Building, the epicenter of a new sound called rock
and roll.
JJ is finally living her dream. She even finds herself a
writing partner in Luke Silver, a boy with mesmerizing green eyes who seems to
connect instantly with her music. Best of all, they’ll be cutting their first
demo with legendary singer Dulcie Brown. Though Dulcie is now a custodian in
the Brill Building and has fallen on hard times, JJ is convinced that she can
shine again.
But Dulcie’s past is a tangle of secrets, and when events
take a dark turn, JJ must navigate a web of hidden identities and shattered
lives—before it snares her, too. –Amazon Description
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Graceling meets The Selection in debut novelist Victoria
Aveyard's sweeping tale of seventeen-year-old Mare, a common girl whose
once-latent magical power draws her into the dangerous intrigue of the king's
palace. Will her power save her or condemn her?
Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood--those with common,
Red blood serve the Silver- blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman
abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village,
until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court. Before the king,
princes, and all the nobles, she discovers she has an ability of her own.
To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play
the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. As
Mare is drawn further into the Silver world, she risks everything and uses her
new position to help the Scarlet Guard--a growing Red rebellion--even as her
heart tugs her in an impossible direction. One wrong move can lead to her
death, but in the dangerous game she plays, the only certainty is betrayal. –Amazon
Description
The Sin Eater's Daughter by Melinda Salisbury
Seventeen-year-old Twylla lives in the castle. But although
she's engaged to the prince, Twylla isn't exactly a member of the court.
She's the executioner.
As the Goddess embodied, Twylla instantly kills anyone she
touches. Each month, she's taken to the prison and forced to lay her hands on
those accused of treason. No one will ever love a girl with murder in her
veins. Even the prince, whose royal blood supposedly makes him immune to
Twylla's fatal touch, avoids her company.
But then a new guard arrives, a boy whose easy smile belies
his deadly swordsmanship. And unlike the others, he's able to look past
Twylla's executioner robes and see the girl, not the Goddess. Yet Twylla's been
promised to the prince, and knows what happens to people who cross the queen.
However, a treasonous secret is the least of Twylla's
problems. The queen has a plan to destroy her enemies, a plan that requires a
stomach-churning, unthinkable sacrifice. Will Twylla do what it takes to
protect her kingdom? Or will she abandon her duty in favor of a doomed love? –Amazon
Description
The Truth about Alice by Jennifer Mathieu
Winner of the Children's Choice Book Awards' Teen Choice
Debut Author Award
Everyone knows Alice slept with two guys at one party. When
Healy High star quarterback Brandon Fitzsimmons dies in a car crash, it was
because he was sexting with Alice. Ask anybody.
Rumor has it Alice Franklin is a slut. It's written all over
the "slut stall" in the girls' bathroom: "Alice had sex in
exchange for math test answers" and "Alice got an abortion last
semester." After Brandon dies, the rumors start to spiral out of control.
In this remarkable debut novel, four Healy High students tell all they
"know" about Alice-and in doing so reveal their own secrets and
motivations, painting a raw look at the realities of teen life. But in this
novel from Jennifer Mathieu, exactly what is the truth about Alice? In the end
there's only one person to ask: Alice herself. –Amazon Description
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