Autumn fears she won't be accepted by her friends for having issues with mental health. Author Kasie West, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is quite familiar with Utah and actually based the library off the design of the county library in Provo.Īs West develops the story between Autumn and Dax, she also delves into Autumn's anxiety disorder. "By Your Side" is the 2017 Whitney Award winner in the young adult general category. In fact, he hardly tells her anything about himself at first and keeps his secrets and his backpack close to him.īut Autumn soon learns that there's much more to Dax than meets the eye, and getting locked in a library with food rations and nothing else to do really helps you get to know someone. However, he doesn't seem to mind being locked in and won't tell her how he got there. He's a loner from her high school who is oftentimes part of the rumor mill with people speculating he went to juvie or has gotten into different kinds of trouble. But she soon finds that she's not the only one in the library, in the novel "By Your Side."Īutumn soon finds out Dax Miller is also locked in with her. When Autumn Collins accidentally gets locked in a library with no access to a phone or computer over a three-day weekend, she doesn't think things could get any worse. " BY YOUR SIDE, " by Kasie West, HarperTeen, $9.99, 342 pages (f) (ages 13 and up)
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