num_pages: 310
description: Nora Lopez is seventeen during the infamous year 1977 in New York.After a freezing winter a boiling hot summer explodes with arson a blackout and a serial killer named Son of Sam who is shooting young people on the streets seemingly at random.Not only is the city a disaster but Nora has troubles of her own: her brother Hector is growing more uncontrollable by the day her mother is helpless to stop him and her father is so busy with his new family that he only calls on holidays.And it doesnt stop there. The supers after her mother to pay their overdue rent and her teachers are pushing her to apply for college but all Nora wants is to turn eighteen and be on her own. There is a cute guy who started working with her at the deli but is dating even worth the risk when the killer especially likes picking off couples who stay out too late?Award-winning author Meg Medina transports readers to a time when New York seemed about to explode with temperatures and tempers running high to discover how one young woman faces her fears as everything self-destructs around her.
language: English
title: Burn Baby Burn
publisher: Candlewick Press