In a book that invites readers to start at either end or alternate between perspectives, Lyra and Gemma get the chance to escape from the protective environments in which they were raised while uncovering secrets about the bioresearch facility that connects them.

A novel about a thirteen-year-old girl who finds herself living with her father, across the country from her native Brooklyn, coping with her mother's violent death in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

"A startlingly beautiful love story… A thrill to read… The most detailed, disturbing, and loveable oddball romance you'll ever read." - Frederick Barthelme, author of Elroy Nights "A beguiling story of the powerful ties between identical twins… Dermansky has crafted a memorable novel." - Booklist "Sometimes despairing, sometimes blackly humorous, always engrossing and thoroughly original. A wonderful debut." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "With...

"Riveting and startling….So raw and funny I wanted to read parts aloud to strangers." -Dylan Landis, author of Normal People Don't Live Like This "Jessica Anya Blau…creates characters that have a lot more depth and more of a past than one often sees in fiction these days…. I found it impossible not to care about them-and equally impossible to forget them. Blau is a magnificent writer, and this is one special novel." -Steve Yarbrough, author...

A debut novel told in alternating "then and now" chapters follows the experiences of a suicidal girl from a secretive family who tests the limits of what she is willing to do to protect her past, present and future.

As Tink Aaron-Martin writes an encyclopedia of her life, she also tells the story of the summer leading into her eighth-grade year.

"While older sister Alex is trying to orchestrate a perfect first kiss with her heartthrob and younger sister Joey prefers frogs to boys, Stevie Reel wonders if she is ready for a boyfriend while being pursued by a new boy in her class"--WorldCat.