Denton Little's Deathdate by Lance Rubin

Denton is going to die tomorrow.

He's known this almost his own life.  Everybody knows their deathdate.  It's determined at birth by AstroThanatoGenetics.

Still, it's weird.

He attends his own funeral and gives his eulogy.  He spends quality time with his best friend, girlfriend, and family.

He thought he was ready to die.  But is he really?



This is funny look at how we face death.  Also, how we deal with relationships with all the people in our lives.  This would be a great book for teen boys.

This Would Make a Good Story Someday by Dana Alison Levy

Sarah had big plans for the summer.  She was going to learn to surf and speak Latin.  She was going to rebrand her image with a new look and nickname.  She was going to practice yoga daily for inner peace.

She was not going to take a month-long train trip with her family.
However, that's exactly what she ends up doing when Mimi, one of her mothers, wins a free trip across the country for the whole family as part of a writing program.

Now, Sarah is trapped on the train with her animal-obsessed younger sister Ladybug, her activist older sister Laurel and her boyfriend Root, and her two moms.  To make it worse, there's a second family also in the same program with a Texan dad, too-friendly teen son, and two rambunctious senior citizen aunts.

It's going to be a crazy summer!

This book by Dana Alison Levy follows the family mentioned quite often in her Family Fletcher books.  It's another great book featuring LGBT parents without making it the entire issue of the book.  It's just the way their family is made.  I would recommend this to anyone who enjoyed the Family Fletcher books or  those who like family stories.

Away We Go by Emil Ostrovski

All they do at Westing is make things up.  Maybe aliens infected all the children.  Maybe the Peter Pan virus is a punishment from God.  Maybe their memories will be downloaded in chips.  Maybe they'll just sit in a bed until they die.

Noah is at Westing boarding school / treatment center for teens with the Peter Pan virus.  All they know is they won't live to graduate.  They're just trying to make the best of the time they have left . . . .


This tearjerker for teens was a great read.  You really grow to care for Noah and the other teens at the center.