A School Library Journal Best Reserve of 2013

An ALA/YALSA Alex Award Winner

I live in a global without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman guys to save you. A location where people expire and music disintegrates and items suck. I am pressed so hard against the planet earth by the fat of reality that some days I wonder could am still in a position to lift my ft to walk.

Two . 5 years after an unspeakable tragedy left her a shadow from the about THE OCEAN of Tranquility: A Book girl she once was, Nastya Kashnikov techniques to a new town decided to keep her dark past concealed and hold everyone far away. But her programs only last so long before she finds herself inexplicably drawn to the main one person as isolated as herself: Josh Bennett.

Josh’s tale is no secret. Everyone he loves continues to be taken from his lifestyle until, at seventeen years of age, there is absolutely no one still left. Whenever your name is definitely synonymous with loss of life, everyone tends to give you your space. Everyone except Nastya who won’t go away until she’s insinuated herself into every part of his existence. But simply because the undeniable draw between them intensifies, he begins to wonder if he’ll ever find out the secrets she’s been hiding-or if he actually wants to.

The Sea of Tranquility is a rich, intense, and brilliantly imagined story in regards to a lonely boy, an emotionally fragile girl, as well as the mira­cle of second chances.