Break to You
Break to You by Neal Shusterman, published by HarperCollins Publishers in 2024, is a young adult fiction novel that explores the lives of two teens navigating the challenges of a juvenile detention center. The story centers on Adriana, who hopes to endure her sentence by keeping a low profile and using her journal to express her innermost thoughts. However, her private reflections take an unexpected turn when she discovers that someone has read her writings and responded, igniting a connection that transcends the barriers of their environment.
Readers will find an intense yet tender narrative that delves into themes of love and romance, as well as the harsh realities of life within the juvenile justice system. Adriana and Jon, who has been in the system for years, share a unique bond through their written exchanges, revealing their struggles and emotions in a setting marked by violence and social themes. This edition, comprising 407 pages, offers a compelling look at the resilience of youth in the face of adversity.
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Bestselling author of Scythe and Challenger Deep Neal Shusterman, here with coauthors Debra Young and Michelle Knowlden, tells an intense yet tender story of two teens, trapped in impossible circumstances and unjust systems, willing to risk everything for love–no matter the consequences.
Adriana knows that if she can manage to keep her head down for the next seven months, she might be able to get through her sentence in the Compass juvenile detention center. Thankfully, she’s allowed to keep her journal, where she writes down her most private thoughts when her feelings get too big.
Until the day she opens her journal and discovers that her thoughts are no longer so private. Someone has read her writings–and has written back. A boy who lives on the other side of the gender-divided detention center. A boy who sparks a fire in her to write back.
Jon’s story is different than Adriana’s; he’s already been at Compass for years and will be in the system for years to come. Still, when he reads the words Adriana writes to him, it makes him feel like the walls that hold them in have melted away.
This fast-paced, highly compelling tour de force novel exposes what life is like in detention–and reveals the hearts of two teens who are forced to live in desperate circumstances.
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