The Sun is also a Star
Nicola Yoon's second book is bound to please.
In The Sun is Also a Star, to understand the characters and their love story, we must know everything around them and everything that came before them that has affected who they are and what they experience.
Two teens--Daniel, the son of Korean shopkeepers, and Natasha, whose family is here illegally from Jamaica--cross paths in New York City on an eventful day in their lives--Daniel is on his way to an interview with a Yale alum, Natasha is meeting with a lawyer to try and prevent her family's deportation to Jamaica--and fall in love. -Amazon
A List of Cages
Adam Blake lands the best elective ever in his senior year,
serving as an aide to the school psychologist. Sure, it means a lot of sitting around, which isn't easy for a guy
with ADHD, but he can't complain... Then the doctor asks him to track down the
troubled freshman who keeps dodging her, and Adam discovers that the boy
is Julian--the foster brother he hasn't seen in five years.
Adam is ecstatic to be reunited. At first, Julian seems like the boy he
once knew. He's still kind hearted. He still writes stories and loves
picture books meant for little kids. But as they spend more time
together, Adam realizes that Julian is keeping secrets, like where he
hides during the middle of the day, and what's really going on inside
his house. Adam is determined to help him, but his involvement could
cost both boys their lives. -Amazon
The Hate U Give
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when there is a fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer...
Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. -Amazon
The Hate U Give
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when there is a fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer...
Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. -Amazon
