the sacred lies of minnow bly by stephanie oakes

And someone out there is guiding them along, desperate for answers.Īt turns heart-racing and heartbreaking, The Arsonist is an intricate tapestry-of love, loss, and the mysterious connections between us all.Īvailable at: Bookshop - Indiebound - Amazon - Barnes and Noble - Goodreads Praise for THE ARSONIST Using Ava’s diary for clues, Molly and Pepper realize there’s more to her life-and death-than meets the eye. When Molly gets a package leading her to Pepper, they’re tasked with solving a decades-old mystery: find out who killed Ava, back in 1989. or fail out of school.Īnd Ava Dreyman-the brave and beautiful East German resistance fighter whose murder at seventeen led to the destruction of the Berlin Wall-is unlike anyone you’ve met before. A Kuwaiti immigrant with epilepsy, serious girl problems, and the most useless seizure dog in existence, he has to write a series of essays over the summer. Pepper Yusef is not your average teenage boy. despite all evidence that this will never happen. For another, Molly refuses to believe that her mother is dead, and she waits for the day when they’ll be reunited. For one thing, her father is a convicted murderer, and his execution date is fast approaching. Molly Mavity is not a normal teenage girl. Because Rose isn't here anymore. And as secrets emerge that force Eleanor to grapple with her history, she must wage a dangerous battle for her own identity and for the full truth of what happened to the girl she lost, knowing if she’s not careful, Rose’s fate could be her own. Eleanor is an adjudicator, ensuring her former classmates don't stray from the lives they’ve been conditioned to live.īut Eleanor can't escape her past, or thoughts of the girl she once loved.

But despite the Meadows’ luminous facilities, endless fields, and pretty things, it keeps dark secrets.įour years later, Eleanor and her friends seem free of the Meadows, changed but not in the ways they expected. When Eleanor gets her letter, she knows she’s freed from her hardscrabble life by the sea, in a country ravaged by climate disaster. These are the special places where only the best and brightest go to burn even brighter. Coming Septemfrom Dial Books for Young ReadersĪvailable at: Bookshop - Amazon - Barnes and Noble - GoodreadsĪ queer, YA Handmaid's Tale meets Never Let Me Go about a dystopian society bent on relentless conformity, and the struggle of one girl to save herself and those she loves from a life of liesĮveryone hopes for a letter-to attend the Estuary, the Pines, the Glades, the Meadows.

The sacred lies of minnow bly by stephanie oakes