Burn Baby Burn

Longlist, National Book Awards 2016 for Young People's Literature

Burn Baby Burn, by Meg Medina book cover
ISBN 9780763674670
Candlewick Press
Meg Medina author photo, 2016
Meg Medina

Meg Medina is the 2012 Ezra Jack Keats New Writers medal winner for Tía Isa Wants a Car, and a Pura Belpré winner for Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, and Mango, Abuela and Me. More about this author >

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New York, summer 1977. Nora Lopez is seventeen, in love with both a new guy and disco music. But the city is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam who shoots young women on the streets. And her troubles don’t even end there. Her brother, Hector, is growing more threatening by the day, and her mother is helpless or unwilling to stop his decline. Life is a series of secrets, with tempers and temperatures running high. What will it take for Nora to survive?

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