B A Binns: 3 books

Being God is book 2 in the Farrington High series and the sequel to Pull, a 2012 YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers. Malik Kaplan, the villain of Pull, has a cross to bear, or maybe it’s a Star of David; being the black teenaged son of a Catholic mother and Hebrew Israelite...

The world implodes for seventeen-year-old David and his younger sisters when their father kills their mother. Stuck in a cramped apartment with an aunt he suspects is only interested in the money from his after school construction job, all David wants to do is separate himself from the violence in...

Neill is a walking statistic; Black, teenaged, and gay. He was strong enough to come out to his family in 8th grade and sensitive enough to know just how much that truth hurt the older brother he worships. He is also intelligent enough to fulfill his family’s dream that he become a doctor - a dream...