The Hub - Today’s Quick Picks nominees are filled with thrills and chills. Breaking by Danielle RollinsBloomsbury USA Children’sPublication Date: June 6, 2017ISBN: 9781619637405 Charlotte has never been a top student at her prestigious, expensive, academically rigorous boarding school. Her best friends Ariel and Devon, however, are true Weston Prep material – freakishly smart and incredibly talented at a multitude of things. Understandably, Charlotte is reeling after they both commit suicide within weeks of each other – they were pretty much her only real family. Then she discovers a clue… and realizes that Ariel has left her a trail of breadcrumbs right to the answer to all her questions. If she’s brave enough and clever enough to figure out the puzzle, what she learns will change everything. Home. THE BACKLIST. YALSA Book and Media Awards and Lists for Libraries.
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The Unquiet Librarian. Tween You & Me. Tween 2 Teen Book Reviews. GUYS READ. QueerYA | reviews of fiction of interest to LGBTQ teens. James Klise, April 2014. Sophomore tennis player Saba Khan is devastated when a fire destroys her family’s West Rogers Park apartment. Saba goes to private school, and the other students and their families rally around her, offering their help to get her back on her feet. The school decides to hold an auction to benefit the Khan family, and in the process, siblings Kevin and Kendra Spoon find artwork in an alley. The art turns out to be lost works by Henry Darger, and is worth at least half a million dollars. Then it disappears. Who’s to blame? The novel is told in documents (news articles, texts, diary entries, etc.) written by a handful of narrators: Saba, her father, her secret boyfriend, Kevin and Kendra, exchange student Javier, the school principal, and three teachers.
This was easily one of the best books I’ve read this year.