Waudby, Jeannie. ONE OF US

• Waudby, Jeannie.
• ONE OF US
• New York : Running Press Teens, 2015
• IL YA
• ISBN 9780762457991

K lives in a group home and will soon be on her own as she ages out of the system.  Her parents were killed in a bombing years ago.  Then the unthinkable happens.  On her way to school, another bomb explodes and she is caught in this one.  She recovers but her life is about to take a dramatic turn.  She falls for a young man who convinces her to infiltrate the Brotherhood, the plaid-wearing group that has been responsible for the bombings in the past.  K is given a new identity and moves into the school with the Brotherhood.  But what she finds is not what she expected.  As she gets to know the teens in the Brotherhood, she becomes torn between the two groups.  Who is on the right side?  The Brotherhood or the Citizens?

podcast:  https://spark.adobe.com/video/r1wTi0E4

Vande Velde, Vivian. 23 MINUTES

Vande Velde, Vivian.
23 MINUTES
New York : Boyds Mills Press. 2016
IL YA
ISBN 1629794414

Have you ever done something and wished for a do-over?  Maybe it was something embarrassing that you would love to erase!  What would you do if you suddenly had the ability to do just that?  Zoe isn't sure why she got the ability to turn back time but she knows it saved her best friend's life.  And got her classified as crazy and now she is stuck in a group home.  When she ducks into a bank to get out of the rain, she finds herself in a very bad situation.  Should she use her ability to play back 23 minutes and change things?  Or walk away?  What if she makes things worse?

Podcast:  https://spark.adobe.com/video/ryQm1Q44