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Carter Peregrine lives in Sterling, North Carolina, with his mom and little brother, Martin. Carter’s FOMO has him addicted to screens, so when the boys join their father in Colorado for a skiing vacation during spring break, no screens allowed, Carter is certain he’ll miss out on the latest viral videos. While “babysitting” his younger brother on the bunny slope, Carter cheats and pulls out his phone. Entirely oblivious to his brother’s path, Martin plows into Carter, breaking both of Carter’s legs. Now what? Carter’s dad gives his son something to think about: “If you hadn’t been staring at your phone, you just might haveRead More →

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Although Mason Deaver’s novel The Feeling of Falling in Love is indeed a love story, as the title implies, it is also about self-esteem, social class differences, and the exploration of sexual and gender identity. Neil Kearney, a transgender teen, has a “friends with benefits” relationship with his friend Josh. Both use the relationship for stress relief and mutual pleasure. However, when Josh decides he loves Neil, Neil panics and invokes the Pull-Out Clause. Now, he has a week to prove to Josh that he has moved on with his roommate, Wyatt Fowler.  What could possibly go wrong, especially since Wyatt claims to be aRead More →

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Set in North Carolina, The Mending Summer by Ali Standish tells the story of twelve-year-old Georgia Collins whose heart is breaking as she struggles to put her Humpty Dumpty family back together. Pursuing their own dreams, her mother is studying long hours for a degree in biology so that she can work in a lab, and her accountant father moonlights as a piano player who comes home transformed by alcohol into the Shadow Man, no longer the Daddy she knows and loves. To protect Georgia from the fighting and the shame and to give herself more study time, Mama arranges for her daughter to summer inRead More →