by E. K. Johnston
appears in Young Adult, Teen, and Teen & Young Adult.
She won't be anyone's cautionary tale.Hermione Winters is captain of her cheerleading team, and in tiny Palermo Heights, the cheerleaders don't cheer for the sports teams; they are the sports team. This year's summer training camp is Hermione's last, and she knows this season could make her a legend. But during a camp party, someone slips something...
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appears in Young Adult, Teen, and Teen & Young Adult.
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Consider The Giver by Lois Lowry. Recommended by 6 sources.
“Lois Lowry uses spare, plain prose to center a single conceit: a supposedly ideal community that controls emotion and memory. The story follows twelve-year-old Jonas as small revelations accumulate into a sharp ethical dilemma, which makes the book useful for conversation and classroom discussion. Its limitation is emotional restraint and deliberate vagueness—many details and characters stay underdefined—so readers who want rich sensory worldbuilding or a tidy conclusion may feel unsatisfied.”
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