Burning Blue by Paul Griffin 291 pages

 

 

This books is a Young Adult Gateway Nominee for 2014-2015 and is the first book by Paul Griffin I have read.  Nicole Castro is the perfect teen.  Beautiful, inside and out, she is a senior in high school and very popular.  Then one day, she is attacked in the hall way and acid is thrown in her face, destroying one side.  She does not see the attacker.  In an instant her world changes.  How do you go on?  How do you continue through school when everyone sees you differently?  You are the same inside!  Nicole is befriended by social outcast Jay Nazzaro.  Jay has been labeled a freak because he has seizures, sometimes publicly.  But Jay is a tech whiz kid and can hack into anything.  He makes it his personal mission to find out who did this to Nicole.  What he discovers is the terrible truth about what some people will do to hold on to those they love.  Look out!  All is not as it seems.