Jen Finelli: 3 books

A Puerto Rican engineering student battles Multiple Sclerosis--and experiments with dangerous body modifications. A girl in a red hijab leaps into the flames of a rotting convenience store--to save someone who hates her. An Asian-American 9th-grader catches a doctor poisoning his city's water supply...

It's the comic book WITHIN a novel, illustrated by the fabulous Annie Chen, so as reader in the book reads comics, and the comic book superhero escapes from them, you're part of the experience. Why so meta? Skye’s a comic book superhero with a gun in his hand and a gripe against his author....

Skye’s a comic book superhero with a gun in his hand and a gripe against his author. Every girl Skye’s ever dated is either dead or trying to take over the world, and in the series finale, Skye’s best friend kills him. Or so he thinks. The weapon meant to disintegrate Skye lands him in his author’s...