THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE
Seventeen-year-old Lennie Walker, bookworm and band geek, plays second
clarinet and spends her time tucked safely and happily in the shadow of
her fiery older sister Bailey. But when Bailey dies abruptly, Lennie is
catapulted to center stage of her own life--and, despite her nonexistent
history with boys, suddenly finds herself struggling to balance two.
Toby was Bailey's boyfriend; his grief mirrors Lennie's own. Joe is the
new boy in town, a transplant from Paris whose nearly magical grin is
matched only by his musical talent. For Lennie, they're the sun and the
moon; one boy takes her out of her sorrow, the other comforts her in it.
But just like their celestial counterparts, they can't collide without
the whole wide world exploding. Just as much a celebration of love as it
is a portrait of loss, Lennie's struggle to sort her own melody out of
the noise around her is always honest, often hilarious, and ultimately
unforgettable.
I'LL GIVE YOU THE SUN
Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen,
isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the
charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears
red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years
later, at sixteen, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has
happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways...until Jude
meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as someone else--an even
more unpredictable new force in her life. The early years are Noah's
story to tell. The later years are Jude's. What the twins don't realize
is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find
their way back to each other, they'd have a chance to remake their
world. This radiant novel from the acclaimed, award-winning author of
The Sky Is Everywhere will leave you breathless and teary and
laughing--often all at once.
