Pub Date: August 1, 2014
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Code: 0790
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 14 to 18
Physical Info: 0.70" H x 7.50" L x 5.30" W ( 0.55 lbs) 216 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Adolescence and Coming of Age
Description: After a gang brawl, Azael wakes up in a locked cell. Juvie, he thinks. He can't remember what happened. And this lockup is strange. They just make himwatch some white girl in another cell. Somehow, he's connected to her...
Brief description: Ashley Hope Pérez is the author of award-winning books for young adults, including What Can't Wait, The Knife and the Butterfly, and Out of Darkness. Out of Darkness was described by The New York Times as a "layered tale of color lines, love and struggle" and was named one of Booklist's "50 Best YA Books of All Time." It also won the 2016 Tomás Rivera Book Award, the 2016 Américas Award, and a 2016 Printz honor for excellence in young adult literature from the American Library Association. When she's not writing or hanging out with her two beautiful sons, Liam Miguel and Ethan Andrés, Ashley teaches world literature at Ohio State University. Visit her online at www.ashleyperez.com or find her on Twitter and Instagram: @ashleyhopeperez.
Review Quotes:
"Perez gives the reader sympathetic yet critical insight into the world of gangs in Houston, Texas, and is careful to show the narratives of loss that drive so many young people to join them." --The ALAN Review