Shades of Yellow

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Winner of the Readers' Choice Bronze Book Award <em>Shades of Yellow </em>leaves you feeling the profound power of friendship at any age.</strong></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(29 39 48 1)>Being a teen has never been tougher. </em><span style=color: rgba(29 39 48 1)>Fourteen-year-old Cassidy Summers has spent her whole life being shuttled from one home to the next as her free-spirited mother attempts to discover herself in every location they explore from Houston Texas to Paris France. This time they're moving into her grandmother's cramped apartment in Connecticut so that her mother can carry out her lifelong dream of opening Summer's Café to sell overpriced cupcakes. But when the café struggles to bring in business and her family's savings start to dry up Cassidy must confront the possibility of another move.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 39 48 1)>Becca Fox has been training to become a member of the Advanced Youth Equestrian Team her whole life under the intense instruction of Vince Hudson. But between academic troubles an ongoing rivalry and a teammate that she can't seem to stop thinking about-no matter how hard she tries-the possibility of securing a spot on the AYET begins to slip further and further out of grasp. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 39 48 1)>Lauren Mahoney has always felt overshadowed by her older sister Chloe a varsity athlete and all-around perfect person. It doesn't help that Lauren's mom seems to wish Lauren fit into the mold of anyone but herself whether it's Chloe or her best friend Becca Fox. But when she finds a guitar that belonged to her father who died when she was only a few years old Lauren starts to discover a side of herself that she never knew existed. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 39 48 1)>The worlds of three fourteen-year-old girls collide in this fresh debut novel supercharged by unreliable parents the immense pressure to succeed and deep personal tragedy. </span></p>