Full name: The Falconer: A Novel

Author: Dana Czapnik Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Historical fiction, Young adult Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781501193224 1501193228

New York, 1993. Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public courts. At turns quixotic and cynical, insecure and self-possessed, Lucy is in unrequited love with her best friend and pick-up teammate Percy, scion to a prominent New York family who insists he wishes to resist upper crust fate. As she navigates this complex relationship with all its youthful heartache, Lucy is seduced by a different kind of life--one less consumed by conventional success and the approval of men. A pair of provocative female artists living in what remains of New York's bohemia invite her into their world, but soon even their paradise begins to show cracks. Similar books: The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix Words in the Dust by Trent Reedy Incantation by Alice Hoffman I Lived on Butterfly Hill by Marjorie Agosin Stealing Freedom by Elisa Carbone Sun Horse, Moon Horse by Rosemary Sutcliff Sophia's War by Avi Trouble Don't Last by Shelley Pearsall Brewster by Mark Slouka A Parcel of Patterns by Jill Paton Walsh Greener Grass by Caroline Pignat The Truth About Sparrows by Marian Hale The Ever-After Bird by Ann Rinaldi War Comes to Willy Freeman by James Collier Daughter of War by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch Chasing Orion by Kathryn Lasky The Redheaded Princess by Ann Rinaldi Sources of Light by Margaret McMullan At the Sign of the Star by Katherine Sturtevant