In Last Chance Live! by Helena Haywoode Henry, a teenage girl on death row competes on a reality show and must decide what forgiveness, family, and freedom mean when the stakes are literally life or death. In The L.O.V.E. Club by Lio Min, three estranged teens must survive being pulled into a video game created by their missing friend, but can they stay the course when hard truths confront them alongside the game bosses? In the genre-bending novel-in-verse, This Is The Year by Gloria Muñoz, a teen girl is enlisted to help establish humanity’s first extraterrestrial settlement and must decide if she’ll carry her losses together with her community or leave it all behind.
Buy Last Chance Live! – Henry
Buy The L.O.V.E. Club – Min
Buy This Is The Year – Muñoz
HELENA HAYWOODE HENRY is a mom of three and former attorney living in the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, area. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and New York University School of Law. Last Chance Live! (Nancy Paulsen Books) is her first novel.
