Part of the
OWN THE NIGHT Summer Reading Program is the weekly raffle. Drop by the Teen Zone desk to enter each time you visit the library.
This week you can pick from
two prizes : A You are Here Solar System T-Shirt or two
signed ARCs (advanced reader's copies) of books by David Levithan and
Rachel Cohn. Both come with $4 in Fine Funs and an Own the Night bag. Read on for descriptions of the two books.
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Every morning, A wakes
in a different person’s body, a different person’s life. There’s never
any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace
with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too
attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere.
It’s all fine
until the morning that A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets
Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which A
has been living no longer apply. Because finally A has found someone he
wants to be with—day in, day out, day after day.
With his new
novel, David Levithan has pushed himself to new creative heights. He has
written a captivating story that will fascinate readers as they begin
to comprehend the complexities of life and love in A’s world, as A and
Rhiannon seek to discover if you can truly love someone who is destined
to change every day.
Elysia is a clone,
created in a laboratory, born as a sixteen year old girl, an empty
vessel with no life experience to draw from. She is a Beta, an
experimental model of teenaged clone. She was replicated from another
teenage girl, who had to die in order for Elysia to be created.
Elysia's
purpose is to serve the inhabitants of Demesne, an island paradise for
the wealthiest people on earth. Everything about Demesne is
bioengineered for perfection. Even the air there induces a strange,
euphoric high that only the island's workers—soulless clones like
Elysia—are immune to.
At first, Elysia's new life on this island
paradise is idyllic and pampered. But she soon sees that Demesne's human
residents, the most privileged people in the world who should want for
nothing, yearn. And, she comes to realize that beneath its flawless
exterior, there is an undercurrent of discontent amongst Demesne's
worker clones. She knows she is soulless and cannot feel and should not
care—so why are overpowering sensations clouding Elysia's mind?
If
anyone discovers that Elysia isn't the unfeeling clone she must pretend
to be, she will suffer a fate too terrible to imagine. When Elysia's
one chance at happiness is ripped away from her with breathtaking
cruelty, emotions she's always had but never understood are unleashed.
As rage, terror, and desire threaten to overwhelm her, Elysia must find
the will to survive.
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