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THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO TELL YOU by Heather Duffy Stone

February 7th, 2009 by Heather Duffy Stone · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring, 2009
  • Publisher: Flux
  • Release Date: March 1, 2009
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
The stories people tell are always about the things we left behind, and about the things we wish we could do again. The real story isn't about what you know; it's about what you wish you knew then. When my brother and my best friend fell in love-that was the end of everything I knew. Fraternal twins Nadio and Noelle share a close connection-and as Noelle's best friend since they were five, Keeley Shipley fit perfectly into their world. But everything changes after Keeley spends the summer before junior year… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Contemporary · Debut · Drugs · Events · Flux · Friendship · Love · Mental Illness · New York · Stand-alone · Stone, Heather Duffy · Young Adult

CRACKED UP TO BE by Courtney Summers

October 8th, 2008 by Courtney Summers · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Winter 2009
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press (Griffin)
  • Release Date: December 23, 2008
  • ISBN (paperback): 031238369X (isbn13: 9780312383695)
Perfect Parker Fadley isn't so perfect anymore. She's quit the cheerleading squad, she's dumped her perfect boyfriend, and she's failing school. Her parents are on constant suicide watch and her counselors think she's playing games... but what they don't know, the real reason for this whole mess, isn't something she can say out loud. It isn't even something she can say to herself. A horrible thing has happened and it just might be her fault. If she can just remove herself from everybody--be totally alone--then… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Winter · Debut · Events · Local · Mental Illness · National · St. Martin's Press · Stand-alone · Suicide · Summers, Courtney · Young Adult · _CANADA Ontario