Second To None - Arleynn Presser

• Author: Arleynn Presser
• Publisher: Kensington Voices, #1
• Year: 1994
• Amazon Listing: Second To None

Book Description

Seventeen-year old Garnet, after watching her single mother struggle, wants a good college education. She gets help from Grant, a brilliant-but-geeeky sophomore. Just as things seem to be going her way, her father returns, remarried, with an impossible request. He needs Garnet to help save his son, who has leukemia.

Awards

• 1995 RITA® in the Young Adult category