It’s hard enough to start your junior year as the new kid in school, but at 5-months pregnant it’s even harder. To make matters worse, she has no way of contacting the father and she and her mother are about to move to a new town and in with her grandmother. When 16 year old Serendipity Rodriguez attends a house party to celebrate the end of sophomore year, she has no intention of getting drunk and hooking up with a guy she’s just met, let alone getting pregnant. The book is touching exploration of love and how it shapes us both during a relationship and after it has ended.īelly Up by Eva Darrows (Hillary Monahan) The summer unfurls, and Lu discovers what it really means to be in love. The closer she gets to the couple, the more she likes them, and the more she wants to write about them. When Lu learns that Cal and Iris have planned to end their relationship at the end of the summer, she becomes fascinated and decides to chronicle the last months the couple will spend together. Then, she meets Cal.Ĭal’s ever-practical girlfriend Iris is looking ahead to her first year of college, and her plans do not include a long-distance boyfriend. The summer after senior year is not going as eighteen-year-old Lu Charles expected: after her longtime boyfriend unexpectedly breaks up with her, Lu can’t write a single word, despite the fact that her college scholarship is tied to her columnist job at hip online magazine Misnomer. Intent on keeping the memory of his mom alive for his little sister.Īdam’s also intent on keeping his diagnosis a secret from his grieving father.Īlone, Adam and Zayneb are playing roles for others, keeping their real thoughts locked away in their journals.īrief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak by Adi Alsaid

Since he got diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in November, Adam’s stopped going to classes, intent, instead, on perfecting the making of things. When she gets suspended for confronting her teacher, and he begins investigating her activist friends, Zayneb heads to her aunt’s house in Doha, Qatar, for an early start to spring break.įueled by the guilt of getting her friends in trouble, she resolves to try out a newer, “nicer” version of herself in a place where no one knows her. Like Zayneb’s teacher, who won’t stop reminding the class how “bad” Muslims are.īut Zayneb, the only Muslim in class, isn’t bad. Like the fact that there are hateful people in the world.

Like the perfect fries Adam and his mom used to make together.Īn oddity: whatever gives you pause.

Like potatoes-because they make French fries happen. Are any of them on your TBR pile?Ī marvel: something you find amazing. We have four books on our radar for these last days of April.

Belly up by eva darrows