Jane, April Lindner
In this contemporary retelling of “Jane Eyre,” an orphaned nanny becomes entranced with her magnetic and brooding employer, a rock star with a torturous secret from his past.
Saving June, Hannah Harrington
Harper Scott’s life changes forever after her sister, June, commits suicide, but when a mysterious boy who seems to have known June better than anyone knew insists on joining Harper and her best friend on their impromptu road trip to take June’s ashes to California, life takes an interesting turn.
Sorta Like a Rock Star, Matthew Quick
Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression.
Sparks: The Epic, Completely True Blue, (Almost) Holy Quest of Debbie, S.J. Adams (Teen Book Festival 2012 Author)
A sixteen-year-old lesbian tries to get over a crush on her religious best friend by embarking on a “holy quest” with a couple of misfits who have invented a wacky, made-up faith called the Church of Blue.
Published on December 1, 2011.
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