Karen Rivers, Author . Raincoast/Polestar $6.95 (302p) ISBN 978-1-55192-600-1
For narrator Haley, it's supposed to be "The Greatest Year of My Life. TGYML," but instead her senior year is one disaster after another: she's ignored by her longtime crush, gets black eyes from running into a tree—and when a...
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Karen Rivers. Scholastic/Levine, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-545-31028-4
Rivers (What Is Real) uses a clever format—the story unfolds in encyclopedia entries instead of chapters—to introduce Isadora “Tink” Aaron-Martin, a candid, biracial almost-13-year-old who has some time on her hands while she’s grounded over the...
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Karen Rivers. Scholastic/Levine, $17.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-545-53479-6
Rivers's (The Encyclopedia of Me) epistolary novel conveys both the unique intimacy created by writing letters (or, in this case, emails) and the thrill of discovering an unknown family member. When 12-year-old adopted New Yorker Ruth Quayle plugs a
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Karen Rivers. Algonquin Young Readers, $16.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-61620-569-0
Rivers (Finding Ruby Starling) adheres to the advice that fiction writers “give their characters trouble” in this psychological horror story. Over a day and night trapped in a well, Kammie Summers, 11, recounts a horrific year. After her father’s...
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Karen Rivers. Algonquin Young Readers, $16.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-61620-570-6
Twelve-year-old Mischa “Ish” Love is determined to be part of the first settlement on Mars—whenever that should come to be—and has done extensive research to prepare. She used to do this sort of research with her best friend Tig Diaz, but when he...
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Karen Rivers. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-374-30246-7
Ever since they became best friends in preschool, Sloane and Piper have been two peas in a pod, dressing alike, fixing their hair the same way, and doing everything together. But now Piper is dead and Sloane believes that she is to blame. In this...
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Karen Rivers. Algonquin Young Readers, $16.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-61620-723-6
The most defining element of Natalia Rose Gallagher’s life is that she’s never met her mother: “You can come out of someone’s body, she thought, and not have that count as meeting them.” Nat knows she could probably find her mother’s name online,...
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Karen Rivers. Algonquin, $17.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-61620-815-8
Something goes wrong with the plane taking Californian Elyse Schmidt and her fellow high school band members home from their trip to Paris. Knowing a crash is imminent, Elyse prays that at least she and her crush, Josh Harris, be saved. The two are...
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Karen Rivers. Algonquin, $16.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-61620-724-3
Eleven-year-old kit was so tiny when she was born that her single mother deemed her “too small for capital letters.” Since then, she’s been told two things about that day: diagnosed with alopecia, she “looked like a naked mole rat,” and her birth...
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Karen Rivers. Algonquin, $18.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-61620-816-5
Southern California high school senior and competitive swimmer Hattie, whose mother left the family when Hattie was six, has been haunted by the memory of seven-year-old Elijah Johnston, who recently drowned while Hattie was lifeguarding. Now, she...
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