GritEdgar Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Mystery * A Kirkus Best Book Raw and moving, this contemporary realistic debut novel will leave readers of E. Lockhart and Gayle Forman breathless as it unflinchingly unfolds the tragic secrets being kept in a small, deceptively idyllic town. Gorgeously written and helmed by a protagonist with an indelibly fierce heart.\" (starred review from Kirkus) Keen plotting, evocative writing, and dynamic

Natalie's husband has been killed—viciously attacked by an infected neighbor—and in a failed attempt to save him

unwanted attention

With their last adventure just barely over

of orthodoxy about human evolution—how we started walking upright

Yet Copperton is cruel as well as vulgar

Interlacing her own experience with close-up reporting on families that are just getting by

and a girl can choose a life as a pirate instead of a life in petticoats

Vasudevan Nair's Bhima is a revelation:lonely

Lettie – Zack’s secret half-sister and an undocumented housekeeper

hip hop and pop culture icon 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) joins forces with Robert Greene

Endling #2: The First is the second book in an epic middle grade animal fantasy series by Katherine Applegate

fond (and furious) missives between her husbands and children