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| Not If I Save You First by Ally CarterStarring: Maddie, who's spent the last six years in a remote Alaskan cabin with no company except for her dad, a former Secret Service agent – until Logan, Maddie's childhood friend and the President's son, brings trouble to her door.
What happens: As Maddie uses her survival skills to protect Logan, their rekindled friendship evolves into romance.
For fans of: author Ally Carter's Gallagher Girls series who are looking for similar stories with a darker edge. |
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| Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay ColesWhat it's about: After his twin brother Tyler is killed by a police officer, high-achieving high-schooler Marvin Johnson is overwhelmed by grief, anger, and the public's response to his personal loss.
Why you might like it: Similar to Angie Thomas' The Hate U Give or Nic Stone's Dear Martin, Tyler Johnson Was Here takes a knowing, heart-wrenching look at the effects of injustice, oppression, and violence in one black teen's life. |
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| The Summer of Broken Things by Margaret Peterson HaddixWhat it's about: Pretty, privileged Avery is annoyed after her dad invites Kayla, Avery's misfit former friend, to join them on a summer trip to Spain, and both girls are thrown when the journey reveals a long-hidden secret about their families.
Try this next: Robin Benway's Far from the Tree, for another multiple-perspective story featuring sympathetic characters in a complicated family situation. |
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Autonomous
by Andy Marino
What it's about: William wins a driverless car that takes him and his friends anywhere they want to go . . . and to some places they don't. Autonomous is more than just a car without a steering wheel. It's capable of downloading all of the passengers' digital history-from the good, to the bad, to the humiliating. The information is customized into an itinerary that will expose a few well-kept secrets, but it will also force William to face some inner demons of his own. Think you know Autonomous? The real question is, how much does Autonomous know about you?
For fans of: High-tech action, fast cars, and science fiction.
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Starry eyes
by Jenn Bennett
What it's about: When teens Zorie and Lennon, a former couple, are stranded in the California wilderness together, they must put aside their differences, and come to terms with lingering romantic feelings, in order to survive.
For fans of: Romantic drama starring exes, and wilderness survival stories.
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The night diary
by Veera Hiranandani
What it's about: Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing to her deceased Muslim mother in the pages of her diary.
Reviewers say: This is a "rich, compelling story, which speaks to the turbulence surrounding India's independence and to the plight of refugees." (School Library Journal)
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