"Summer finally comes to a close for Makoto and her friends--but not without incident! In Aomori, Beachy makes a surprise visit and helps Chinatsu with a summer project that's out of this world. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, Akane gets sauced and puts Makoto's plans to return to Aomori on hold. And when Makoto gets back, she'll find plenty of surprises waiting for her. However, the biggest surprise comes when her friends find Makoto in a compromising situation...

"Demetra Brodsky's Last Girls is a twisting, suspenseful YA thriller about sisterhood, survival, and family secrets set in the world of doomsday prepping. No one knows how the world will end. On a secret compound in the Washington wilderness, Honey Juniper and her sisters are training to hunt, homestead, and protect their own. Prepare for every situation. But when danger strikes from within, putting her sisters at risk, training becomes real life,...

"A novel set in French Polynesia and New York City about three characters -- a fifteen year old girl toggling between her mother, a marine biologist studying coral reefs on an island off the coast of Tahiti, and her father, a surgeon in Manhattan -- who undergo massive transformations over the course of a single year"-- From Mo'orea, a tiny volcanic island off the coast of Tahiti, a French biologist obsessed with saving Polynesia's imperiled coral...