Now’s your chance to start your summer road trip (even if it’s just by being submerged in a hot summer read) — and win great prizes.  Join our 2013 Summer Reading Challenge!  Are you up for the challenge?  Make this your summer reading list, read each book, share your reviews, get to know the authors and enter to win weekly prizes.  The challenge kicks off today and will go through mid-August. Join the event on Facebook for more information!

Keep an eye out during the challenge for bonus picks to earn more points towards the prizes. The more you read and the more you share, the more you win. Happy reading!

Without further adieu here is stop #6 on our list of stops in this summer’s challenge Crumble by Fleur Philips.

More about Crumble

Setting: Picturesque Kalispell, MT is located in the heart of the magnificent Rocky Mountains. Situated a half-hour from Glacier National Park and a stone’s throw from Flathead Lake, Kalispell is the very essence of Big Sky country! 

Plot:  A modern tale of forbidden love … Eighteen-year-old Sarah McKnight has a secret. She’s in love with David Brooks. Sarah is white. David is black. But Sarah’s not the only one keeping secrets in the close-knit community of Kalispell, Montana. Her father George, who owns a local gun shop and proudly drives a truck with a Confederate flag bumper sticker, hides his own complicated past.

When he discovers Sarah’s relationship, George decides to share his feelings with Alex Mackey—a lonely classmate of Sarah’s whom he’s taken under his wing. Soon, Sarah and David will graduate from high school and leave Kalispell for a new life together. Maybe they can stop hiding their love — and the other secret they share … something George McKnight — and Alex Mackey — will never accept.

Here’s what people are saying about Crumble:

• “Fleur Philips has done it again! She’s completely blown my mind with her latest novel, Crumble.”—Violet Journal
• “Once again Fleur Philips has blown my mind with her literary talent…Do me a favor and grab this book for a great summer read, then share it with your friends, local library, the nearest clinics, therapists, abuse centers, and anyone else.”— Library at the End of the Universe (Penelope Bartotto)
• “This is a great book to open up for discussion with your teen or with your friends or classmates…A very brave and thought provoking read with an unpredictable ending.”—All Booked Up
• “I was very invested in this book and was left with the empty feeling when I finished it–you know that feeling when you finish a good book and you’re not really sure what to do with yourself? Well that is the feeling I was left with when I closed Crumble. Fleur really wrote an awesome book, that I recommend to any teen reader who is looking for a book to shake up their world.”—Confessions of a Teenage Bookworm
• “Knowing this book was on the shorter side, I thought it would be hard to get attached to the characters – I was wrong! I thought in the beginning of book that the whole issue was interracial relationships, but Fleur added pregnancy, abuse and beliefs about fire arms. It was a lot to take in, but somehow she weaved it all in – it worked. The ending was a unexpected.—Ope’s Opinions