3 on a YA Theme: YA Books About Teens and Seniors

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Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize by Margo Rabb

Lucy Clark has ne'er been adjacent with her parents. Raised by her grandma and past dumped successful boarding schoolhouse aft her death, Lucy is miserable…and erstwhile a bullying lawsuit drives her implicit the edge, she finds herself bound for New York City, wherever she’s to enactment with her older relative and assistance an older pistillate whom Lucy is told is showing aboriginal stages of dementia. But erstwhile she meets Edith, Lucy isn’t convinced that Edith is losing her grasp connected the present. If anything, she’s definite that Edith is arsenic crisp arsenic ever…and Edith is convinced that idiosyncratic is trying to termination her. Teaming up with Edith’s champion friend, an aged retired actress, Lucy agrees to analyse the enigma and uncover the truth. I loved however the older characters successful this publication go existent friends to Lucy, not conscionable “role models.”

Love is simply a Revolution by Renée Watson

Nala is looking guardant to a summertime of amusive and relaxation, but erstwhile she meets Ty, who is simply a assemblage activistic and organizer, she tells a small achromatic prevarication astir moving astatine her grandmother’s status assemblage successful bid to impressment him. The truth? She conscionable likes hanging retired astatine her grandma’s flat and listening to her chat with each her friends. But present that Nala is committed and Ty seems funny successful her, it’s hard to locomotion backmost the lie. She’ll person to fig retired a mode to support her caller narration going without letting anyone successful connected the truth, oregon letting her grandma turn suspicious. This is simply a large publication that has immoderate truly fantastic moments betwixt Nala, her grandmother, and her grandmother’s friends.

Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley

Daunis is sticking adjacent to location alternatively of going disconnected to college, hoping to supply a stabilizing power connected her ma and younger brother, but her beingness is rocked by the execution of idiosyncratic adjacent to her and the revelation that the FBI is investigating her Ojibwe community. Daunis is dragged into the probe against her amended judgment…and finds assistance and enactment on the mode from her assemblage of elders. I loved however important the elders of this publication were to Daunis and her journey, from her narration with her champion friend’s grandma to the respect and knowing she has with the elder community. And the elders are precise important to the plot, coming successful astatine immoderate precise pivotal scenes!