Burn baby burn
By: Meg Medina
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Somerville, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780763674670
Subjects: Electric power failures; Serial murders; Fiction
Description: 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 thereis 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.
Notes: YA Childrens Plus, Inc.