Glass Stars: 1 (Chronicles of V)

A shocking disappearance. Tragic family news. V searches for answers . . . even if it leads her into the face of danger.Fourteen-year-old freshman Violet V Jiménez knows Emma will have her back on their first anxiety-ridden day of high school. So when her best friend is kidnapped just as classes begin the determined V vows to save Emma at any cost. But her resolve is thrown a major curve with her mothers sudden cancer diagnosis.Struggling to cope with the shock of her moms ailing health and feeling things couldnt possibly get worse V finds solace following in the footsteps of her favorite teenage TV detective. Then when she discovers a link to another missing girl her investigation takes her on an alarming ride deep inside an insidious criminal lair.Can V expose the citys menacing underbelly before her friend is lost forever?