May 7, 2024: The Chaperone by M Hendrix (Kirkus Style)
THE CHAPERONE By: M Hendrix Release Date: June 6, 2023 A tense YA about a dystopian America and a teenage girl who desires change. Life changes completely as she knows it when her Chaperone dies unexpectedly, and she suspects there is more to the death than her family is letting on. Stella is a young girl in “New America” where young girls have no autonomy and are not allowed to be seen without their Chaperones. One night, Stella’s Chaperone, Sister Helen, dies unexpectedly, and she is assigned a new one. Sister Laura alters Stella’s world view from day one, and the discoveries only continue to change the course of Stella’s life as the novel goes on. Stella has always been one to follow the rules placed on young girls in New America, but Sister Laura shows her the challenges and issues with blind obedience. Stella begins to learn the real power that her father holds in New America, and the gruesome truth about Sister Helen likely being murdered because of her place in the resistan
