How would you fare if you were lost in the wilderness with an injured foot and nothing but the clothes on your back? That's what Ashley is facing in Be Not Far From Me when she gets separated from her friends on a camping trip. Ashley might be outdoorsy, but even she is in over her head as the environment continues to worsen. Whenever I thought the plot couldn't thicken further, author Mindy McGinnis proved me wrong. I loved the thoughts that this book evoked in me as I went down several rabbit holes of "what if?"
Hatchet meets Wild in this harrowing YA survival story about a teenage girl’s attempt to endure the impossible, from the Edgar Award-winning author of The Female of the Species, Mindy McGinnis.
The world is not tame. Ashley knows this truth deep in her bones, more at home with trees overhead than a roof.
So when she goes hiking in the Smokies with her friends for a night of partying, the falling dark and creaking trees are second nature to her. But people are not tame either. And when Ashley catches her boyfriend with another girl, drunken rage sends her running…
Penny and Tate have known each other all their lives--and despised each other for most of it. In this enemies-to-lovers book, we see the two teens struggle against themselves and each other as they are thrown into the same living situation. What's better than tension you can't cut with a knife? The sweet relief of finally letting all of that tension go.
1. They've known each other their whole lives 2. Their moms are best friends 3. They are DEFINITELY NOT friends 4. They keep almost kissing 5. They don't talk about it 6. Thanks to their moms, they're moving in together ...
But when an almost-kiss goes from almost to I am now wearing your lip gloss, Penny and Tate have no choice but to finally face the music ... right?
An utterly compelling will-they-won't-they slow-burn queer romance from the author of THE GIRLS I'VE BEEN.
Jesse Q. Sutanto is one of the funniest contemporary authors around, with a witty style even when the topic turns serious. Didn't See That Coming is a fun take on mixed-up love interests, and I adore the way it immersed me into the world of video games without making me feel lost (I'm not much of a gamer!).
A hilariously fresh and romantic send-up to You’ve Got Mail about a gamer girl with a secret identity and the online bestie she’s never met IRL until she unwittingly transfers to his school, from the bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties, The Obsession, and Well, That Was Unexpected.
Seventeen-year-old Kiki Siregar is a fabulous gamer girl with confidence to boot. She can’t help but be totally herself… except when she’s online.
Her secret? She plays anonymously as a guy to avoid harassment from other male players. Even her online best friend—a cinnamon roll of a teen boy who plays…
When bisexual 17-year-old Taryn joins her school’s powerhouse Speech and Debate team, she discovers she’s good at acting. But when painful, amped-up cramps invade her pelvis, performing on-demand and getting close to the guy catching her eye become increasingly less feasible.
Riker aspires to break into the world of voice acting to perform video game voiceovers. Achieving his dream and getting over the hurdle of talking to the green-eyed new girl from Speech proves impossible when a nagging inner voice constantly reminds him how worthless he is.
As Riker and Taryn float closer together, then farther apart, they must work to find ways of coping—or they’ll miss out on each other and their performance goals.
