A Catalog of Burnt Objects, Dial Books for Young Readers, March 2025
“Smart and moving.” —Kirkus (starred review)
“Full of heart and sure to have mass appeal.” —Booklist (starred review)
“A wrenching story of resilience and healing. . . . Visceral.” —Publishers Weekly
“Gorgeous worldbuilding [and] depth . . .swoony scenes and wildly fun best-friend chats, [but] this isn’t your typical teen romance—like the fire, it has darker and more complicated edges . . . Unputdownable.” —BCCB
” a moving, emotional novel that sees 17-year-old Caprice struggle with family, first love, and wildfire. . . the novel holds value for those beyond its suggested age range.” Saint Louis Magazine, A-List Editor’s Choice Award
“Heart-wrenching and lyrical.” —Jeff Zentner, author of In The Wild Light
“You can’t help but fall in love with the world inside this book.” —Helena Fox, author of How It Feels to Float
“A thoughtful, hopeful tight-rope walk between first loss and first love.” —Daisy Garrison, author of Six More Months of June
The story of a girl struggling to figure out her estranged brother, a new love, and her own life just as wildfires beset her small California town—by the acclaimed author of As Many Nows as I Can Get, whose hometown, Paradise, California, was devastated by the 2018 Camp Fire.
Seventeen-year-old Caprice wants to piece her family back together now that her older brother has returned home, even as she resents that he ever broke them apart. Just as she starts to get a new footing—falling in love for the first time, uncertainly mending her traumatized relationship with her brother, completing the app that will win her a college scholarship and a job in tech—wildfires strike Sierra, her small California town, forcing her to reckon with a future that is impossible to predict. A love story of many kinds and a reflection of the terrifying, heartbreaking events of Paradise, California, where the author grew up, this is a tale that looks at what is lost and discovers what remains, and how a family can be nearly destroyed again and again, and still survive.
As Many Nows As I Can Get: Dial Books for Young Readers August 2019
“[A] smart, poignant story that serious teen readers shouldn’t miss.” KIRKUS, Starred Review
“A complex, compassionately written love story.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“Mystery . . . Heartbreak . . . Hope . . . Readers will not be able to put this one down.” SLJ
“Good plot twists and surprising emotional connections . . . The writing is John Green–like, intelligent and peppered with witty repartee. Recommended.” —Booklist
In one impulsive moment the summer before they leave for college, overachievers Scarlett and David plunge into an irresistible swirl of romance, particle physics, and questionable decisions.
Scarlett and David have known each other all their lives in small-town Graceville, Colorado, where David is just another mountain in the background, until, one day, he is suddenly so much more than part of the landscape. Magnetic, poetic, spontaneous, David is a gravitational force. And Scarlett, pragmatic, wry, eye on the future, welcomes the whirlwind even as she resists it.
Moving between the present and the past, this is the story of a seemingly grounded girl who’s pulled into a lightning-strike romance with an electric-charged boy, and the enormity of the aftermath. Smart, bold, and unconventionally romantic, this book explores grief, guilt, and reconciling who you think you need to be with the person you’ve been all along. It’s an aching, transporting reminder that between the past that shapes us and the unknowable future, we have only the present to forgive ourselves and forge ahead.
Purchase As Many Nows As I Can Get (available in audio, e-book and hardcover)