Within the Romance Panel of this program, I learned about a new author named Leslye Walton that brought an interesting perspective into the romance novel genre for Teens. Leslye said that Teens should be exposed to other types of love such as family, friendship, and even discovering the love for something you are passionate about in order to mature and understand the world better. I think that this is an important outlook on educating teens while at the same time entertaining them and engaging them in fiction material.
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender consists of more than romantic love.
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Magical realism, lyrical prose, and the pain and passion of human love haunt this hypnotic generational saga.
Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny, Ava Lavender. Ava-in all other ways a normal girl-is born with the wings of a bird. In a quest to understand her peculiar disposition and a growing desire to fit in with her peers, sixteen-year old Ava ventures into the wider world, ill-prepared for what she might discover and naive to the twisted motives of others. Others like the pious Nathaniel Sorrows, who mistakes Ava for an angel and whose obsession with her grows until the night of the summer solstice celebration. That night, the skies open up, rain and feathers fill the air, and Ava's quest and her family's saga build to a devastating crescendo. First-time author Leslye Walton has constructed a layered and unforgettable mythology of what it means to be born with hearts that are tragically, exquisitely human.
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