Girl Made Of Stars

For readers of Girl in Pieces and The Way I Used to Be comes an emotionally gripping story about facing hard truths in the aftermath of sexual assault. Mara and Owen are as close as twins can get, so when Mara’s friend Hannah accuses Owen of rape, Mara doesn’t know what to think. Can her brother really be guilty of such a violent act? Torn between her family and her sense of right and wrong, Mara feels lost, and it doesn’t help that things are strained with her ex-girlfriend, Charlie. As Mara, Hannah, and Charlie come together in the aftermath of this terrible crime, Mara must face a trauma from her own past and decide where Charlie fits into her future. With sensitivity and openness, this timely novel confronts the difficult questions surrounding consent, victim blaming, and sexual assault.

  • Girl Made Of Stars, by Ashley Herring Blake
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Five Feet Apart

In this inspiring story, two teenagers fall in love, Stella and Will. Only, they can’t cross withing 6 feet of each other, due to their debilitating cystic fibrosis. Stella is a routine, rule-following individual, while Will doesn’t want to be limited by us CF, accepting his life and wanting to live it to the fullest.

Life or love?

Five Feet Apart, by Rachael Lippincott, Tobias Iaconis, Mikki Daughtry

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The Rest Of Us Just Live Here

What if you aren’t the one supposed to be fighting all these zombies, soul-eating ghosts, or whatever it is with these blue lights and death?

Or, what if you’re Mikey, with OCD and anxiety, who just wants to graduate and work up the nerve to ask out his sister’s best friend, Henna, before the school explodes? Again?

Or maybe, there truly are problems bigger than your own life, and you just have to fight it out on your own.

Even if you have a couple of strange, possibly magical friends…

Worshipped by mountain lions.

  • The Rest Of Us Just Live Here, by Patrick Ness
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S.T.A.G.S

Greer McDonald has always been a loner, a geek. Getting into one of the most prestigious schools in the country should mean that you have an established social status, but she probably forgot that smart people can be snobs too.

And bullies.

As she struggles to fit in at the school, exclusively known as S.T. A.G.S, she gets a strange invitation from the “popular” group for a weekend of hunting, shooting, and fishing.

Even weirder?

The other misfits like her are also invited in.

But then, she soon realizes that nothing is what it seems, and what’s being hunted isn’t the wild game, the boars, or the stags…

It’s them. The misfits.

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