Polisner, Gae

"Joy Fonseca is dreading her thirteenth birthday, dreadingbeing reminded again about her best friend Lukas's sense-less death on this day, one year ago--and dreading thefact he may have heard what she accidentally blurted out to him the night before. Or maybe she's more worried he didn't hear. Either way she's decided: she will finally open the first clue to the annual birthday scavenger hunt Lukas left for the morning he died, hoping the rest of the clues are still out there. If they are, they might lead Joy to whatever last words Lukas wrote, and toward understanding how to grab to the future that is meant to be hers"--Publisher.

"Joy Fonseca is dreading her thirteenth birthday, dreadingbeing reminded again about her best friend Lukas's sense-less death on this day, one year ago--and dreading thefact he may have heard what she accidentally blurted out to him the night before. Or maybe she's more worried he didn't hear. Either way she's decided: she will finally open the first clue to the annual birthday scavenger hunt Lukas left for the morning he died, hoping the rest of the clues are still out there. If they are, they might lead Joy to whatever last words Lukas wrote, and toward understanding how to grab to the future that is meant to be hers"--Publisher.

"On the morning of September 11, 2001, sixteen-year-old Kyle Donohue watches the first twin tower come down from thewindow of Stuyvesant High School. Moments later, terrified and fleeing home to safety across the Brooklyn Bridge, he stumbles across a girl perched in the shadows, covered in ash, and wearing a pair of costume wings. With his mother and sister in California and unable to reach his father, a NYC detective likely on his way to the disaster, Kyle makes the split-second decision to bring the girl home. What follows is their story, told in alternating points of view, as Kyle tries to unravel the mystery of the girl so he can return her to her family. But what if the girl has forgotteneverything, even her own name? And what if the more Kyle gets to know her, the less he wants her to go home?"--Back cover.

After his father dies, Klee ends up in a psychiatric hospital and tries to remember what memories were real or not.

"On the morning of September 11, 2001, sixteen-year-old Kyle Donohue watches the first twin tower come down from the window of Stuyvesant High School. Moments later, terrified and fleeing home to safety across the Brooklyn Bridge, he stumbles across a girl perched in the shadows, covered in ash, and wearing a pair of costume wings. With his mother and sister in California and unable to reach his father, a NYC detective likely on his way to the disaster, Kyle makes the split-second decision to bring the girl home. What follows is their story, told in alternating points of view, as Kyle tries to unravel the mystery of the girl so he can return her to her family. But what if the girl has forgotten everything, even her own name? And what if the more Kyle gets to know her, the less he wants her to go home?"--Dust jacket.

Four years after her brother, Simon, drowned while in her charge, Francesca, now fifteen, begins to move on after a summer of caring for Frankie, who seems to be Simon reincarnated, and getting closer to her best friend's boyfriend.

Four years after her brother, Simon, drowned while in her charge, Francesca, now fifteen, begins to move on after a summer of caring for Frankie, who seems to be Simon reincarnated, and getting closer to her best friend's boyfriend.

When their friend Scooter dies of a rare disease, teenagers Nick Gardner and Jaycee Amato set out on a secret journey to find the father who abandoned "The Scoot" when he was an infant, and give him a signed first edition of "Of Mice and Men.".

When their friend Scooter dies of a rare disease, teenagers Nick Gardner and Jaycee Amato set out on a secret journey to find the father who abandoned "The Scoot" when he was an infant, and give him a signed first edition of "Of Mice and Men.".