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Jas Hammonds
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2025 Abe Lincoln Nominees
2025 Lincoln Nominees
Coretta Scott King Award - Youth
Realistic Fiction - YA Books
2025 Lincoln Nominees
Coretta Scott King Award - Youth
Realistic Fiction - YA Books
Description
When seventeen-year-old Avery moves to rural Georgia to live with her ailing grandmother, she encounters decade-old family secrets and a mystery surrounding the town's racist past.
Avery Anderson is convinced her senior year is ruined when she's uprooted from her life in DC and forced to Bardell, Georgia, and into the hostile home of her terminally ill grandmother, Mama Letty. The tension between Avery's mom and Mama Letty makes for a frosty arrival...
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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In the summer before college, eighteen-year-old Blake Brenner works to join the exclusive Serena Society with her girlfriend, and turns to alcohol to cope with the pressure of pledging, as her pursuit of success begins to strain her relationships.
