Tonight The Streets Are Ours by Leila Sales
Recklessly loyal.
That’s
how seventeen-year-old Arden Huntley has always thought of herself.
Caring for her loved ones is what gives Arden purpose in her life and
makes her feel like she matters. But lately she’s grown resentful of
everyone—including her needy best friend and her absent mom—taking her
loyalty for granted.
Then Arden stumbles upon a website called
Tonight the Streets Are Ours, the musings of a young New York City
writer named Peter, who gives voice to feelings that Arden has never
known how to express. He seems to get her in a way that no one else does, and he hasn’t even met her.
Until Arden sets out on a road trip to find him.
During
one crazy night out in New York City filled with parties, dancing, and
music—the type of night when anything can happen, and nearly everything
does—Arden discovers that Peter isn’t exactly who she thought he was.
And maybe she isn’t exactly who she thought she was, either.
The Same Sky by Amanda Eyre Ward
In this heartrending and
poignant novel, award-winning author Amanda Eyre Ward tells the story of
Alice Conroe, a forty year old Texas barbecue owner who has the perfect
life, except she and her husband long for a child. Unable to conceive,
she’s trying desperately to adopt but her destiny is quickly altered by a
young woman she’s never met.
Fearless thirteen-year-old Carla
Trujilio is being raised by her grandmother in Honduras along with her
four year old twin brothers. Her mother is sending money home from Texas
where she’s trying to make a better life for her family, but she only
has enough to bring one son to her. When Carla’s grandmother dies, Carla
decides to take her fate into her own hands and embarks on a dangerous
journey across the border with Junior, the twin left behind.
Two
powerful journeys intersecting at a pivotal moment in time: Alice and
Carla’s lives will be forever and profoundly changed. Heartbreaking,
emotional, and arresting, this novel is about finding the courage to
trail blaze your own path in life with faith, hope and love, no matter
the struggle or the tragedy.
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
My disease is as rare
as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t leave my
house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever
see are my mom and my nurse, Carla.
But then one day, a moving
truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He’s tall,
lean and wearing all black—black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers,
and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me
looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly.
Maybe
we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things. For
example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It’s almost
certainly going to be a disaster.
Dumplin' by Julie Murphy
Self-proclaimed fat
girl Willowdean Dickson (dubbed “Dumplin’” by her former beauty queen
mom) has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the
ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini on your body. With her all-American
beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side, things have always worked…until
Will takes a job at Harpy’s, the local fast-food joint. There she meets
Private School Bo, a hot former jock. Will isn’t surprised to find
herself attracted to Bo. But she is surprised when he seems to like her
back.
Instead of finding new heights of self-assurance in her
relationship with Bo, Will starts to doubt herself. So she sets out to
take back her confidence by doing the most horrifying thing she can
imagine: entering the Miss Clover City beauty pageant—along with several
other unlikely candidates—to show the world that she deserves to be up
there as much as any twiggy girl does. Along the way, she’ll shock the
hell out of Clover City—and maybe herself most of all.
With starry Texas nights, red candy suckers, Dolly Parton songs, and a wildly unforgettable heroine—Dumplin’ is guaranteed to steal your heart.
What We Saw by Aaron Hartzler
Kate Weston can piece
together most of the bash at John Doone’s house: shots with Stacey
Stallard, Ben Cody taking her keys and getting her home early—the
feeling that maybe he’s becoming more than just the guy she’s known
since they were kids.
But when a picture of Stacey passed out
over Deacon Mills’s shoulder appears online the next morning, Kate
suspects she doesn’t have all the details. When Stacey levels charges
against four of Kate’s classmates, the whole town erupts into
controversy. Facts that can’t be ignored begin to surface, and every
answer Kate finds leads back to the same question: Where was Ben when a
terrible crime was committed?
