The Area 51 Files

Firecracker

The Universe Is Expanding and So Am I

I Believe in a Thing Called Love

Picture Us in the Light

Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You

Shark Girl

Going Over

Sometimes a new perspective is all that is needed to make sense of the world.

KIT: I don’t know why I decide not to sit with Annie and Violet at lunch. It feels like no one here gets what I’m going through. How could they? I don’t even understand.

DAVID: In the 622 days I’ve attended Mapleview High, Kit Lowell is the first person to sit at my lunch table. I mean, I’ve never once sat with someone until now. “So your dad is dead,” I say to Kit, because this is a fact I’ve recently learned about her.

When an unlikely friendship is sparked between relatively popular Kit Lowell and socially isolated David Drucker, everyone is surprised, most of all Kit and David. Kit appreciates David’s blunt honesty—in fact, she finds it bizarrely refreshing. David welcomes Kit’s attention and her inquisitive nature. When she asks for his help figuring out the how and why of her dad’s tragic car accident, David is all in. But neither of them can predict what they’ll find. Can their friendship survive the truth?

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The Area 51 Files

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Firecracker

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The Universe Is Expanding and So Am I

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I Believe in a Thing Called Love

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Picture Us in the Light

Kelly Loy Gilbert, 2018

Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You

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Kelly Bingham, 2007

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