Teenage or adult readers who like Young Adult novels might enjoy this week’s spotlight:
Title: Promise Boys by Nick Brooks
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Genre: Contemporary, Young Adult, Fiction
Length: 279 pages
Summary:
The Hate U Give meets One of Us Is Lying in Nick Brooks’s Promise Boys, a blockbuster mystery about three teen boys of color who must investigate their principal’s murder to clear their own names—for fans of Jason Reynolds, Angie Thomas, and Karen McManus.
The Urban Promise Prep School vows to turn boys into men. As students, J.B., Ramón, and Trey are forced to follow the prestigious “program’s” strict rules. Extreme discipline, they’ve been told, is what it takes to be college bound, to avoid the fates of many men in their neighborhoods. This, the Principal Moore Method, supposedly saves lives.
But when Moore ends up murdered and the cops come sniffing around, the trio emerges as the case’s prime suspects. With all three maintaining their innocence, they must band together to track down the real killer before they are arrested. But is the true culprit hiding among them?