Wild Awake

<p>In <em>Wild Awake</em> Hilary T. Smith's exhilarating and heart-wrenching YA debut novel seventeen-year-old Kiri Byrd has big plans for her summer without her parents. She intends to devote herself to her music and win Battle of the Bands with her bandmate and best friend Lukas. Perhaps then in the excitement of victory he will finally realize she's the girl of his dreams.</p><p>But a phone call from a stranger shatters Kiri's plans. He says he has her sister's stuff--her sister Sukey who died five years ago. This call throws Kiri into a spiral of chaos that opens old wounds and new mysteries.</p><p><em>Like If I Stay</em> and <em>The Perks of Being a Wallflower</em> <em>Wild Awake</em> explores loss love and what it means to be alive.</p>