Not a fanI would put Forbidden on my list, which I would not recommend, and then The Blue Book of Nebo, which I would recommend, and then also We Spread and Black Girl Unlimited are two books that have made me cry more so than most other things.
Forbidden (2011)
Others: Mixed Sixteen-year-old Maya and seventeen-year-old Lochan tell, in their separate voices, of their confusion and longing as they fall in love with one another after years of functioning as parents to three younger siblings due to their alcoholic mother's neglect.
- ISBN:
- 9781442419964
- Length:
- 454 pages
Genres: romance, young adult
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Loved itthis book I read at the beginning of the year and if you guys watched my wrap up for it I was like heartbroken I love those kind of books that just like make me cry and make me feel something and just like totally shock me and this book had all of those things in it