Sadie
(Book)

"Today, WNRK is launching the first episode of our new serialized podcast, The Girls, created and hosted by West McCray." When popular radio personality West McCray receives a desperate phone call from a stranger imploring him to find nineteen-year-old runaway Sadie Hunter, he's not convinced there's a story there; girls go missing all the time. But as soon as West's boss discovers Sadie fled home after the brutal murder of her little sister, Mattie, he sees the makings of something big and orders West to the small town of Cold Creek, Colorado, to uncover what happened. Sadie has no idea that her story will soon become the subject of a blockbuster podcast. She just wants revenge. Armed with a switchblade, Sadie follows a meager set of clues hoping they'll lead to the man who took Mattie's life, because she's determined to make him pay for it with his own. But as West traces her journey to the darkest, most dangerous corners of big cities and small towns, a deeply unsettling mystery begins to unfold - one that's bigger than them both. Can he find Sadie before it's too late? Alternating between Sadie's unflinching voice as she hunts the killer and the podcast transcripts tracking the clues she's left behind, Sadie is a breathless thriller about the lengths we go to to protect the ones we love and the high price we pay when we can't. It will haunt you long after you reach the final page. -- From dust jacket.

HL750L,Lexile

Accelerated Reader,UG,5.0,11.0.

Chicago Public Library Best Teen Fiction, 2018

Edgar Award for Young Adult, 2019

Kirkus Prize Nominee for Young Readers' Literature, 2018

Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers' Choice Nominee, 2020

NPR Best Books, 2018

Publisher's Weekly Best Young Adult Book, 2018

School Library Journal's Best Books, 2018

YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2019