cover image INSIDE OUT

INSIDE OUT

Terry Trueman, . . HarperTempest, $6.99 (128pp) ISBN 978-0-06-447376-7

While a 16-year-old battling schizophrenia waits in a coffee shop for his mother to arrive with his medication, two boys attempt to rob the café and take hostages. PW called this "a vivid story of three desperate teens that recalls Robert Cormier, with its dark, disturbing theme and narrative shifts in rapid-fire succession." Ages 14-up. (Nov.)