Ultimate YA
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(Remy Starr)
Publisher and fabulous creator of this *ultimate* group
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Liz
(Suzannah 'Suze' Simon)
Co-publisher and creator of this tumble-log
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Brittney
(Taylor Markham)
Staff
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Katy
(Katniss Everdeen)
Staff
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Depending on where you live, it’s either very cold, very hot, or somewhere in between. Nonetheless, Valentine’s decorations are up, chocolate is on sale, and people are celebrating love. From bookworm to bookworm, Ultimate YA brings you ASHLEY HOPE PEREZ’s second novel, The Knife and the Butterfly!
Summary:
After a marijuana-addled brawl with a rival gang, 16-year-old Azael wakes up to find himself surrounded by a familiar set of concrete walls and a locked door. Juvie again, he thinks. But he can’t really remember what happened or how he got picked up. He knows his MS13 boys faced off with some punks from Crazy Crew. There were bats, bricks, chains. A knife. But he can’t remember anything between that moment and when he woke behind bars.
Azael knows prison, and something isn’t right about this lockup. No phone call. No lawyer. No news about his brother or his homies. The only thing they make him do is watch some white girl in some cell. Watch her and try to remember.
Lexi Allen would love to forget the brawl, would love for it to disappear back into the Xanax fog it came from. And her mother and her lawyer hope she chooses not to remember too much about the brawl—at least when it’s time to testify.
Lexi knows there’s more at stake in her trial than her life alone, though. She’s connected to him, and he needs the truth. The knife cut, but somehow it also connected.
Interested? You can buy the book from Amazon, Barnes&Noble, Lerner Books, or your local bookstore!
