Books with author Anne Young

Sandra Schmirler won three Canadian and world titles, but it was her Olympic gold medal at the 1998 games in Nagano, Japan, that saw her crowned as Canada's "Queen of Curling." And it was her demonstrated belief in family, friends and the preciousness of life that won her a place in the hearts of everyone she met. With her teammates, third Jan Betker, second Joan McCusker and lead Marcia Gudereit, the Saskatchewan four was voted The Canadian Press Team of the Year in 1998 by sports editors and broadcasters across the country after winning that first women's curling gold. Sandra Schmirler was voted into the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame just two years before her tragic death from cancer at age 36.

It s time to fight back in this second novel in a thrilling, subversive near future series from New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Young about a girls-only private high school that is far more than it appears to be.Make me a girl with a razor heart It s been weeks since Mena and the other girls of Innovations Academy escaped their elite boarding school. Although traumatized by the violence and experimentations that occurred there, Mena quickly discovers that the outside world can be just as unwelcoming and cruel. With no one else to turn to, the girls only have each other and the revenge-fueled desire to shut down the corporation that imprisoned them. The girls enroll in Ridgeview Prep, a private school with suspect connections to Innovations, to identify the son of an investor and take down the corporation from the inside. But with pressure from Leandra, who revealed herself to be a double-agent, and Winston Weeks, an academy investor gone rogue, Mena wonders if she and her friends are simply trading one form of control for another. Not to mention the woman who is quite literally invading Mena s thoughts a woman with extreme ideas that both frighten and intrigue Mena. And as the girls fight for freedom from their past and freedom for the girls still at Innovations they must also face new questions about their existence and what it means to be girls with razor hearts.