Emily Henry

"Exciting, heartbreaking, and far from ordinary." --Kirkus Emily Henry is "one of YA's preeminent voices....an exquisite, genre-bending novel. --Booklist The Serpent King meets Stranger Things in Emily Henry's gripping novel about a group of friends in a small town who find themselves dealing with unexpected powers after a cosmic event. Almost everyone in the small town of Splendor, Ohio, was affected when the local steel mill exploded. If you weren't a casualty of the accident yourself, chances are a loved one was. That's the case for seventeen-year-old Franny, who, five years after the explosion, still has to stand by and do nothing as her brother lies in a coma. In the wake of the tragedy, Franny found solace in a group of friends whose experiences mirrored her own. The group calls themselves The Ordinary, and they spend their free time investigating local ghost stories and legends, filming their exploits for their small following of YouTube fans. It's silly, it's fun, and it keeps them from dwelling on the sadness that surrounds them. Until one evening, when the strange and dangerous thing they film isn't fiction--it's a bright light, something massive hurtling toward them from the sky. And when it crashes and the teens go to investigate...everything changes.

When the Sky Fell on Splendor

Rachel Wingler

Sometimes the anger was too much. Sometimes I thought that if you peeled back my skin, that would be all that was there: a burning red hate for this world and what it did to people callously, every second, every day.

"The point is, nothing in our universe, even the stuff that's supposedly 

 from time and space, is ever really lost. It's just hidden from our sight."

He smiled at me. "There are things about black holes that break all the rules--or 

 in a way we don't understand yet. As if the universe wants to exist so badly it makes loopholes in its own rules. I find it comforting, like this is all meant to be somehow, and nothing can take any of it away. Like everything is forever."

"Remember, Fran, it's not the size of something that matters in this galaxy. It's the gravity of a thing, how much it pulls on things and where it takes them."

I'd wanted to be the kind of person who didn't cause the people she loved pain, but somehow, I still managed to poison things.

The voiceless anger had started in the hospital room, my throat aching with all the screams that couldn't find a way out, and that was when I'd looked across the room and seen him.

A boy who couldn't stop screaming. A thrashing boy. Fighting tooth and nail against what was happening, like he could stop it, or at least force the world to bear witness to his pain. 

"No one is going to help you. Don't you get that? 

"You have a future. And wherever it is, I'm in it. I'm not leaving 

The island we had built for ourselves. The place where none of the ugly shit was supposed to be able to intrude, where the ash from the accident wouldn't fall and the things we feared were never said. 

 whole world was coming apart, and I had caused it. 

By telling them the truth. By needing them when they could barely withstand the pressure that was already on them.

 you think I'm going to let you down, and I probably should've given up on this friendship a long time ago, but I can't, because I know you too well--even the parts you try not to share--and I love you."

"It sucks loving someone who doesn't want to be loved, who won't let you care about them--who doesn't even want you to notice or care when they're hurting."

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