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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page.
•Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

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My Teaser for today is from

Torn Away

by Jennifer Brown 

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Genre: YA Contemporary

Teaser #1 from page 21 .

It felt like a never-ending stream of chaos. Like my whole world was being shaken and tossed and torn apart, and like it would never stop. Like I would be stuck in this terror forever.

I was confused, and my arms, legs, back, and head stung. I coiled into myself, gripping my head and crying and crying, half-sobbing, half-shrieking. I don’t know how long I stayed that way before I realized it was over.

Teaser #2 from page 78.

“I’ve seen videos of tornadoes before, but Jersey, I’ve never seen anything like this. It was huge. Had all these little tornadoes circling it too. The thing was so big it looked like it could swallow the whole world.”

It did, I thought. It swallowed my whole world.

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My kindle battery died so I picked this up last night to continue reading, and I paid for it this morning. I have no idea what time it was when I fell asleep with the light on. And I felt like a zombie all day at work. But it was worth it.

Luckily, I only have about 30 pages until the end, so I’ll get plenty of sleep tonight!

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Book Description:

Born and raised in the Midwest, Jersey Cameron knows all about tornadoes. Or so she thinks. When her town is devastated by a twister, Jersey survives — but loses her mother, her young sister, and her home. As she struggles to overcome her grief, she’s sent to live with her only surviving relatives: first her biological father, then her estranged grandparents.

In an unfamiliar place, Jersey faces a reality she’s never considered before — one in which her mother wasn’t perfect, and neither were her grandparents, but they all loved her just the same. Together, they create a new definition of family. And that’s something no tornado can touch.

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