Stephen Emond
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Walter Wilcox's first love, Naomi, happens to be African American, so when Walter's policeman father is caught in a racial profiling scandal, the teens' bond and mutual love of the Foo Fighters may not be enough to keep them together through the pressures they face at school, at home, and online.
2) Winter town
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Evan and Lucy, childhood best friends who grew apart after years of seeing one another only during Christmas break, begin a romance at age seventeen but his choice to mindlessly follow his father's plans for an Ivy League education rather than becoming the cartoonist he longs to be, and her more destructive choices in the wake of family problems, pull them apart.