Coming Soon!!!!!!!!! … JUNKYARD GIRLS. Winter 2024
Hadley Vega
Junkyard Boys is a gritty and glaring story told in the bildungsroman style of Jim Carroll’s, THE BASKETBALL DIARIES, Peter Hedge’s, WHAT’S EATING GILBERT GRAPE and S.E. Hinton’s, THE OUTSIDERS. As impressionable teens full of rage, separation, and distrust, this story follows two adolescent boys. Their travelogues after being taken from the only lives they knew and tossed into the social services system bring you front and center to their fight. There are some comparisons to Sapphire’s PUSH, while this book tells a similar story that, for some, will heighten awareness and expose adults and youths today to the plight so many less fortunate kids face. Their sometimes humorous and other times heart-wrenching lives are unraveled through a series of vignettes narrated by Zeke and Danny, as they merge throughout the novel to become one story.
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Hadley Vega is an American author born in Manchester, Iowa. In REAL LIFE, Hadley is a Medical Laboratory Scientist and travels the country extensively staring into microscopes. Her family remains in Iowa and Wisconsin. She is available for Author Q & A’s and enjoys reading and reviewing new books, screenplays, short stories, essays and blogs, especially for new and upcoming authors. Scroll down for instructions on submitting your book for reviews.
“It’s okay to not know what you want in life. Just as long as you know what you don’t.” –Hadley Vega
“Acceptance is at it’s most challenging when found fraternizing with denial.” –Hadley Vega
“The times in my life that were the most agonizing and terrifying were a direct result of not listening to my gut.” -Hadley Vega
“Try telling a kid they’re a lost cause like it’s something they didn’t already know. It’s all they ever knew.” -Hadley Vega, Junkyard Boys
AUTHORS: To submit your book for review please submit a request to hadleyvega@yahoo.com with the title and link to your work on Amazon or Goodreads. Self-published work is encouraged. For your unpublished work, send title, genre, any sub genres, and a brief synopsis or keynote. Please allow two business days for a response. Reviews with less than 3 stars will not be posted or made public. Print copies are preferred. Reviews are typically between two and three paragraphs in length. No spoilers will be given.
The ratings explained:
★★★★★ (5)- It was absolutely a fantastic book and one of the best ever! I’d love to have a copy of it on my shelf so I can read it over and over again. I’m probably going to go around recommending it to everyone. I loved everything about it and will definitely recommend it to many others to read.
★★★★☆ (4)- It was a really good book but maybe had some minor flaws in it. I like it and I’ll recommend it. I might read it again.
★★★☆☆ (3)- It was a decent read. I might recommend it, depending on the person.
★★☆☆☆ (2)- The book didn’t interest me. I don’t plan to read it again.
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