A Kirkus Prize Finalist * A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee * A National Book Award Long List Selection * An American Library Association Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection * A Booklist Editors' Choice * A Horn Book Fanfare Selection * A Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of the Year *A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * A BookPage Best Children's Book of the Year

While violence runs rampant throughout New York, a teenage girl faces danger within her own home in Meg Medina's riveting coming-of-age novel.

Nora Lopez is seventeen during the infamous New York summer of 1977, when the city is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam who shoots young women on the streets. Nora's family life isn't going so well either: her bullying brother, Hector, is growing more threatening by the day, her mother is helpless and falling behind on the rent, and her father calls only on holidays. All Nora wants is to turn eighteen and be on her own. And while there is a cute new guy who started working with her at the deli, is dating even worth the risk when the killer likes picking off couples who stay out too late? Award-winning author Meg Medina transports us to a time when New York seemed balanced on a knife-edge, with tempers and temperatures running high, to share the story of a young woman who discovers that the greatest dangers are often closer than we like to admit -- and the hardest to accept.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 03/08/2016
ISBN: 9780763674670
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.90w x 1.20d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/04/2016
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2016
School Library Journal 02/01/2016 pg. 103
Booklist 02/01/2016 pg. 40
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2016 pg. 92
Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2016 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 04/01/2016
School Library Journal 12/01/2016 pg. 38

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 180933 / Burn Baby Burn
Reading Level: 4.5 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 10