Our Violent Ends
by Chloe Gong
Young adult · ages 14–18 · grades 9–12 · 820L · 512 pages · 2021
Why we'd hand it over
A gorgeous, violent Romeo-and-Juliet retelling set in 1920s Shanghai that doesn't shy from the moral weight of wartime choices—gorgeous prose and genuinely high stakes, but the second book assumes you've read the first.