All You Never Wanted by Adele Griffin

Juvie by Steve Watkins

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199075 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199075] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Juvie Author: Steve Watkins Narrator: Whitney Dykhouse Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 36 minutes Release date: October 8, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: Heart-wrenching and real, Juvie is the story of two sisters grappling with sacrifice, accountability—and who’ll be there to help you up after you take the fall. Sadie Windas has always been the responsible one — she’s the star player on her AAU basketball team, she gets good grades, she dates a cute soccer player, and she tries to help out at home. Not like her older sister, Carla, who leaves her three-year-old daughter, Lulu, with Aunt Sadie while she parties and gets high. But when both sisters are caught up in a drug deal — wrong place, wrong time — it falls to Sadie to confess to a crime she didn’t commit to keep Carla out of jail and Lulu out of foster care. Sadie is supposed to get off with a slap on the wrist, but somehow, impossibly, gets sentenced to six months in juvie. As life as Sadie knew it disappears beyond the stark bars of her cell, her anger — at her ex-boyfriend, at Carla, and at herself — fills the empty space left behind. Can Sadie forgive Carla for getting her mixed up in this mess? Can Carla straighten herself out to make a better life for Lulu, and for all of them? Can Sadie survive her time in juvie with her spirit intact?

Backwards by Todd Mitchell

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199024 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199024] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Backwards Author: Todd Mitchell Narrator: Nick Podehl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 47 minutes Release date: October 8, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: An unusual psychological thriller asks: Is it possible to fix a tragic future by changing the past—while experiencing life backwards?At the moment Dan's life ends, the Rider's begins. Unwillingly tied to Dan, the Rider finds himself moving backwards in time, each day revealing more of the series of events that led to Dan's suicide.As the Rider struggles to figure out what he's meant to do, he revels in the life Dan ignores. Beyond the simple pleasures of a hot shower and the sun on his face, the Rider also notices the people around Dan: his little sister, always disappointed by her big brother's rejection, his overwhelmed mom, who can never rely on Dan for help, and Cat—with her purple hair, artistic talent, and misfit beauty. But Cat doesn't want anything to do with Dan. While the days move in reverse and Halloween looms, it's up to the Rider to find out why Cat is so angry, and what he must do to make things right.In his second novel for teens, Todd Mitchell turns time around as the Rider attempts to fix the future by changing the past and experiences the joys and heartbreak of living backwards.

Bang by Lisa McMann

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198442 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/198442] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bang Series: #2 of Visions Author: Lisa McMann Narrator: Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 14 minutes Release date: October 8, 2013 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: What Sawyer’s seeing might mean murder. The second “dramatic, quick-paced thriller (Kirkus Reviews)” in a series from the New York Times bestselling author of the Wake trilogy. Jules should be happy. She saved a lot of people’s lives and she’s finally with Sawyer, pretty much the guy of her dreams. But the nightmare’s not over, because she somehow managed to pass the psycho vision stuff to Sawyer. Excellent. Feeling responsible for what he’s going through and knowing that people’s lives are at stake, Jules is determined to help him figure it all out. But Sawyer’s vision is so awful he can barely describe it, much less make sense of it. All he can tell her is there’s a gun, and eleven ear-splitting shots. Bang. Jules and Sawyer have to work out the details fast, because the visions are getting worse and that means only one thing: time is running out. But every clue they see takes them down the wrong path. If they can’t prevent the vision from happening, lives will be lost. And they may be among the casualties…

Coaltown Jesus by Ron Koertge

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199078 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/199078] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Coaltown Jesus Author: Ron Koertge Narrator: Nick Podehl Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 18 minutes Release date: October 8, 2013 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: “I would have been here sooner, but traffic on I-55 was awful.”Walker shouldn’t be so surprised to find Jesus standing in the middle of his bedroom. After all, he prayed for whoever was up there to help his mom, who hasn’t stopped crying since Noah died, two months ago. But since when have prayers actually been answered? And since when has Jesus been so...irreverent?As astounding as Jesus’ sudden appearance is, it’s going to take more than divine intervention for Walker to come to terms with his brother’s death. Why would God take seventeen-year-old Noah when half of the residents in his mom’s nursing home are waiting to die? And why would he send Jesus to Coaltown, Illinois, to pick up the pieces? If he really wanted to help, why couldn’t he have kept Noah from dying?In a spare, weighty, and often humorous text, renowned poet Ron Koertge tackles some of life’s biggest questions—and humanizes the savior in a way that highlights the divinity in all of us.

All You Never Wanted by Adele Griffin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196770 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/196770] to listen full audiobooks. Title: All You Never Wanted Author: Adele Griffin Narrator: Annalie Gernert, Erin Mallon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 41 minutes Release date: October 8, 2013 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: With my eyes closed and Alex's core friends all around me, it was like I'd become my big sister, or something just as good. And so who cared if they were calling it Alex's party? One thing I knew: it would be remembered as mine. Alex has it all—brains, beauty, popularity, and a dangerously hot boyfriend. Her little sister Thea wants it all, and she's stepped up her game to get it. Even if it means spinning the truth to win the attention she deserves. Even if it means uncovering a shocking secret her older sister never wanted to share. Even if it means crying wolf. Told in the alternating voices of Alex and Thea, Adele Griffin's mesmerizing new novel is the story of a sibling rivalry on speed.