Marissa's Staff Picks

 

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1. The music of what happens

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Author:
Konigsberg, Bill
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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East Regional - Young Adult
YA KONIGSBE
Holly Springs Community - Young Adult
YA KONIGSBE
North Regional - Young Adult
YA KONIGSBE
Description:
It is summer in Phoenix, and seventeen-year-old Maximo offers to help Jordan, a fellow student in high school, with the food truck that belonged to Jordan's deceased father, and which may be the only thing standing between homelessness for Jordan and his mom; the boys are strongly attracted to each other, but as their romance develops it is threatened by the secrets they are hiding--and by the racism and homophobia of those around them.

2. You should be so lucky: a novel

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Author:
Sebastian, Cat
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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8 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Athens Drive Community - Romance
SEBASTIA
Cary Regional - Romance
SEBASTIA
East Regional - Romance
SEBASTIA
Description:
"The 1960 baseball season is shaping up to be the worst year of Eddie O'Leary's life. He can't manage to hit the ball, his new teammates hate him, he's living out of a suitcase, and he's homesick. When the team's owner orders him to give a bunch of interviews to some snobby reporter, he's ready to call it quits. He can barely manage to behave himself for the length of a game, let alone an entire season. But he's already on thin ice, so he has no choice...