How To Save a Life

What is an ARC anyway??

According to Wikipedia, an Advanced Readers’ Copy (or ARC) is:

“As a marketing tool, publishers provide free copies of new titles to booksellers, journalists and even celebrities.

Such books are variously referred to as readers editions, an advance copy, an advance reading copy, ARC or ARE. It's the book privately released by its publisher before the book is printed for mass distribution.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_copy

SO, ARCs are basically books that are sent out to people to read before the actual book is published. Our LMC is lucky enough to receive at least one ARC a month. This gives our students at BHS the chance to read some books before they even come out!

Our newest ARC is How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr. Zarr has written other ya books—Once Was Lost, Sweethearts, and Story of a Girl—and How to Save a Life comes out January 2012.

Description from Goodreads:

Jill MacSweeney just wants everything to go back to normal. But ever since her dad died, she’s been isolating herself from her boyfriend, her best friends–everyone who wants to support her. You can’t lose one family member and simply replace him with a new one, and when her mom decides to adopt a baby, that’s exactly what it feels like she’s trying to do. And that’s decidedly not normal. With her world crumbling around her, can Jill come to embrace a new member of the family?

Mandy Kalinowski knows what it’s like to grow up unwanted–to be raised by a mother who never intended to have a child. So when Mandy becomes pregnant, she knows she wants a better life for her baby. But can giving up a child be as easy as it seems? And will she ever be able to find someone to care for her, too?

Critically acclaimed author and National Book Award finalist Sara Zarr delivers a heart-wrenching story, told from dual perspectives, about what it means to be a family and the many roads we can take to become one.

I’m looking forward to reading this one this weekend! Come to the LMC to check out How to Save a Life and take a look at our other ARCs!