Young Adult Must Reads – May 2019

 How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox –  Biz knows how to float. She has her people, her posse, her mom and the twins. She has Grace. And she has her dad, who tells her about the little kid she was, who loves her so hard, and who shouldn’t be here but is. So Biz doesn’t tell anyone anything. Not about her dark, runaway thoughts, not about kissing Grace or noticing Jasper, the new boy. And she doesn’t tell anyone about her dad. Because her dad died when she was six. And Biz knows how to float, right there on the surface–normal okay regular fine. But after what happens on the beach–first in the ocean, and then in the sand–the tethers that hold Biz steady come undone. Dad disappears, and with him, all comfort. It might be easier, better, sweeter to float all the way away? Or maybe stay a little longer, find her father, bring him back to her. Or maybe–maybe maybe maybe–there’s a third way Biz just can’t see yet. Amazon

Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich – Review

Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich – publication date of October 9th, 2018 by Poppy (an Imprint of Little, Brown and Company) and is a contemporary young adult novel.

Dear Evan Hansen,

Today’s going to be an amazing day and here’s why…

When a letter that was never meant to be seen by anyone draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family’s grief over the loss of their son, he is given the chance of a lifetime: to belong. He just has to stick to a lie he never meant to tell, that the notoriously troubled Connor Murphy was his secret best friend.

The Second Life of Ava Rivers by Faith Gardner – Review

The Second Life of Ava Rivers by Faith Gardner has a publication date of August 28th, 2018 by Razorbill and is a contemporary young adult novel.

Ava’s disappearance was the crack in the Rivers family glacier. I wish I could explain to you how we were before, but I can’t because the before is so filmy and shadowed with the after.

The Second Life of Ava Rivers by Faith Gardner – Review

The Second Life of Ava Rivers by Faith Gardner has an expected publication date of August 28th, 2018 by Razorbill and is a contemporary young adult novel.

Ava’s disappearance was the crack in the Rivers family glacier. I wish I could explain to you how we were before, but I can’t because the before is so filmy and shadowed with the after.

Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich – Review

Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich – Expected publication date of October 9th, 2018 by Poppy (an Imprint of Little, Brown and Company) and is a contemporary young adult novel.

Dear Evan Hansen,

Today’s going to be an amazing day and here’s why…

When a letter that was never meant to be seen by anyone draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family’s grief over the loss of their son, he is given the chance of a lifetime: to belong. He just has to stick to a lie he never meant to tell, that the notoriously troubled Connor Murphy was his secret best friend.