Under the Fading Sky

A teen boy thinks his vaping habit is harmless until it becomes a crippling addiction of nightmarish dimensions in this searing young adult novel from Newbery and National Book Award winner Cynthia Kadohata. So, stuff has, like, a beginning and an end. And you dont really realize that until the end, or right before. Before that, youre just thinking that you and your homies are chillin and getting high, and its all gonna work out. You know? Truth is, the way life works is that you were born in the eye of a hurricane, and you think thats just the way life is, calm-like. Untilit isnt. So, yeah, Elijah is only sixteen, and already he would change a lot of stuff if he could go back in time. But you cant ever do that. And when you cant, thats when you find out who you really are.