From the author of Like No Other, the novel Entertainment Weeklycalls 'One of the most poignant and star-crossed love stories since The Fault in Our Stars':What if the last hope to save your family is the person who broke it up to begin with?
'Fans of John Green, Rainbow Rowell, and Sharon Flake will find much to love in [Don't Fail Me Now].'
--School Library Journal
Michelle and her little siblings Cass and Denny are African-American and living on the poverty line in urban Baltimore, struggling to keep it together with their mom in jail and only Michelle"s part-time job at the Taco Bell to sustain them.
Leah and her stepbrother Tim are white and middle class from suburban Maryland, with few worries beyond winning lacrosse games and getting college applications in on time.
Michelle and Leah only have one thing in common: Buck Devereaux, the biological father who abandoned them when they were little.
After news trickles back to them that Buck is dying, they make the uneasy decision to drive across country to his hospice in California. Leah hopes for closure; Michelle just wants to give him a piece of her mind.
Five people in a failing, old station wagon, living off free samples at food courts across America, and the most pressing question on Michelle"s mind is: Who will break down first--herself or the car? All the signs tell her they won"t make it. But Michelle has heard that her whole life, and it"s never stopped her before....
Una LaMarche triumphs once again with this rare and compassionate look at how racial and social privilegeaffects one family in crisis in both subtle and astonishing ways.
From the Hardcover edition.
Fitting seamlessly alongside current bestsellerslike Rainbow Rowell"sEleanor Park, and John Green'sPaper Towns, LIKE NO OTHER provides a thoroughly modern take on romance that will inspire laughter, tears, and the belief that love can happen when you least expect it.
'Electrifying surprisingly seductive. LaMarche expertly conjures up what high-stakes infatuation feels like.' -The New York Times Book Review
'[A] refreshing tale of forbidden love.'-PeopleMagazine
"One of the mostpoignant and star-crossedlove stories sinceThe Fault in Our Stars." -Entertainment Weekly
Fate brought them together. Will life tear them apart?Devorah is a consummate good girl who has never challenged the ways of her strict Hasidic upbringing.Jaxon is a fun-loving, book-smart nerd who has never been comfortable around girls (unless you count his four younger sisters).They've spent their entire lives in Brooklyn, on opposite sides of the same street. Their paths never crossed...until one day, they did.
When a hurricane strikes the Northeast, the pair becomes stranded in an elevator together, where fate leaves them no choice but to make an otherwise risky connection.Though their relationship is strictly forbidden, Devorah and Jaxon arrange secret meetings and risk everything to be together. But how far can they go? Just how much are they willing to give up?
Bittersweet, funny, and achingly honest, Five Summers is a story of friendship, love, and growing up that is perfect for fans of Ann Brashare's The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsand Judy Blume'sSummer Sisters.
Four best friends, five summers of camp memories
Emma, Skylar, Jo and Maddie have all come back to camp for a weekend of tipsy canoe trips to the island, midnight skinny dipping in the lake, and an epic game of capture the flag--boys versus girls. But the weekend isn't quite as sunwashed as they'd imagined as the memories come flooding back...
The summer we were nine: Emma was branded "Skylar's friend Emma" by the infamous Adam Loring . . .The summer we were ten: Maddie realized she was too far into her lies to think about telling the truth . . .The summer we were eleven: Johanna totally freaked out during her first game of Spin the Bottle . . .The summer we were twelve: Skylar's love letters from her boyfriend back home were exciting to all of us, except Skylar . . .Our last summer together: Emma and Adam almost kissed. Jo found out Maddie's secret. Skylar did something unthinkable...and whether we knew it then or not, five summers of friendship began to fall apart.A young adult book with a friendship story that will last long after the last s'more is gone.
