Tough Choices
Gone by Lisa McMann
Would you choose to be blind, crippled or isolated in order to help others?
Janie Hannagan is drawn into other people's dreams and nightmares and uses this ability to help apprehend criminals. Janie thought she knew what her future held and had made her peace with that, but now her future has an ominous twist. Janie has to make some personal decisions and her choices are more dire than she ever thought possible. She alone must decide between the lesser of two evils. And time is running out!
This is the final book in he Wake Trilogy so you will want to read the others first in order to understand everything that is happening.
Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers
Would you cop to a crime that you didn't commit? Would you stick out your neck for someone and ruin your own future?
Maurice "Reece" Anderson is sent to a detention centre for stealing prescription forms for use in drug dealing. After 22 months of hell, he is assigned to work at a seniors centre where he meets a racist former prisoner of war. Soon Reece is reflecting on his own choices in life and how he can protect his family... "The thing was that I didn't know if I was going to mess up again or not. I just didn't know. I didn't want to, but it looked like that's all I did." A harrowing story of how circumstances and bad decisions can grow into huge problems with very high stakes!
The Last Summer of the Death Warriors by Francisco X. Stork
What if your loved one is murdered? Is revenge ever justifyable?
Pancho is planning his revenge and if successful, he will soon be arrested for the murder of his sisters killer. " How strange that a feeling once so foreign to him now gripped him with such persistence. He could not imagine living without avenging his sisters death"
When Pancho is introduced to the 'Death Warrior Manifesto', he must decide what action to take...a choice that will change his life, and the life of those around him. How far will he go and what are the consequences of this all consuming revenge?
Every Little Thing in the World by Nina de Gramont
What if a last minute impulsive decision leads to a life altering choice which will affect you, your friends, your family and someone you haven't even met yet?
Best friends, Sydney and Natalia like to take chances, are rebellious and love to party. Life gets complicated after they are arrested , sent to a 'hard love' wilderness camp AND Sydney discovers she is pregnant after a casual fling.
" I hadn't felt I knew him well enough to remind him about the condom issue"
Other campers have other secrets too: a hot guy is hiding his sexual orientation, another guy revelas he killed a man, and Natalia has a secret about her biological mother that puts both friends under a lot of pressure. Decisions need to be made that are both realistic and unsettling...what is the best thing to do?
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
Rescue the girl or go for the treasure? Slit the girls throat and sell her for parts or take a chance and help her?
Nailer works for a scavenging company along the Gulf Coast looking for grounded oil tankers. After a hurricane, he discovers a beached ship and must make a choice: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful wealthy girl?
This futuristic, action-packed story of dangers, ranging from giant 'city killer' hurricanes to a vicious, drug addicted father, leads to almost unthinkable actions and life altering decisions.
Efrain's Secret by Sofia Quintero
What if circumstances presented few options and one of those options was to lead a double life? Honour student by day....drug dealer by night?
Efrain is caught between two worlds: a possible life of an honour student at an Ivy league school, and the real world of poverty in the South Bronx. The odds are stacked against him, "...although I'm very smart, I'm too brown and too poor. In other words, I could never be smart enough". A chance to make hard, fast money for his $32,000 tuition, has him thinking "....Doing the right thing is supposed to be it's own reward but that's not enough to pay my tuition". The pressure is on from his old pal, Nestor, a drop out drug dealer, but Efrain is undecided."Don't front now like you weren't stressing me" Efrain is full of conflicted emotions....should he or shouldn't he?
So there you are, a choice list of new 2010 books about choices. In the words of Edgar Guest:
You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; you are the person who make up your mind. Whether to lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be content to stay where you are.
Choose well,
Cindy
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