TWEENS AND TEENS
Traveling with teenagers is always an adventure! Keep them reading this summer with these exciting stories. As Brave as You by Jason Reynolds Genie’s summer is full of surprises. The first is that he and his big brother, Ernie, are leaving Brooklyn for the very first time to spend the summer with their grandparents all the way in Virginia – in the COUNTRY! The second surprise comes when Genie figures out that their grandfather is blind. The Great Wide Sea by M. H. Herlong Still mourning the death of their mother, three brothers go with their father on an extended sailing trip off the Florida Keys and have a harrowing adventure at sea. Marcus Vega Doesn’t Speak Spanish by Pablo Cartaya After a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension, Marcus’s mom decides it’s time for a change of scenery. She takes Marcus and his younger brother to Puerto Rico to spend a week with relatives they don’t remember or have never met. Greetings from Witness Protection by Jake Burt Thirteen-year-old Nikki Demere is an orphan and a kleptomaniac, making her the perfect girl to portray the Trevors’ daughter in witness protection. But she soon learns that the biggest threat to her new family’s security comes from her own past.
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