Description
A Kirkus Prize Finalist * A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee * A National Book Award Long List Selection * An American Library Association Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection * A Booklist Editors' Choice * A Horn Book Fanfare Selection * A Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of the Year *A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * A BookPage Best Children's Book of the Year "Medina holds nothing back. . . . A devastatingly intense story, this work is a must-have for all collections." -- School Library Journal (starred review)
Meg Medina transports readers to a time when New York seemed balanced on a knife-edge, with tempers and temperatures running high: the infamous summer of 1977, when the city is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam who shoots young women on the streets. Seventeen-year-old Nora Lopez's family life isn't going so well, either. Before she turns eighteen and can strike out on her own, Nora will discover that the greatest dangers are often closer than we like to admit -- and the hardest to accept.
Author: Meg Medina
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 03/27/2018
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781536200270
ISBN10: 1536200271
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | People & Places | United States | Hispanic & Latino
- Young Adult Fiction | Family | General (see also headings under Social Themes)
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Violence
Meg Medina transports readers to a time when New York seemed balanced on a knife-edge, with tempers and temperatures running high: the infamous summer of 1977, when the city is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam who shoots young women on the streets. Seventeen-year-old Nora Lopez's family life isn't going so well, either. Before she turns eighteen and can strike out on her own, Nora will discover that the greatest dangers are often closer than we like to admit -- and the hardest to accept.
Author: Meg Medina
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 03/27/2018
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781536200270
ISBN10: 1536200271
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | People & Places | United States | Hispanic & Latino
- Young Adult Fiction | Family | General (see also headings under Social Themes)
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes | Violence
About the Author
Meg Medina is the author of the Newbery Medal-winning book Merci SuĂĄrez Changes Gears, which was also a 2018 Kirkus Prize finalist. Her young adult novels include Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, which won the 2014 Pura BelprĂ© Author Award; Burn Baby Burn, which was long-listed for the National Book Award; and The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind. She is also the author of picture books Mango, Abuela, and Me, illustrated by Angela Dominguez, which was a Pura BelprĂ© Author Award Honor Book, and TĂa Isa Wants a Car, illustrated by Claudio Muñoz, which won the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. The daughter of Cuban immigrants, she grew up in Queens, New York, and now lives in Richmond, Virginia.