Young Adult

Cassia Reyes lives in a Society that has solved the problem of choosing: officials called Matched select your career, your diet, your activities, and ultimately your spouse — the person with whom you are statistically most compatible. On the night of the Matching banquet, Cassia is Matched to her best friend Xander, a reassuring outcome…

Summary Gary Eldon Peter’s debut novel arrives quietly, without flash or spectacle, and that restraint turns out to be one of its greatest strengths. Set on a small dairy farm in southern Minnesota, The Complicated Calculus (and Cows) of Carl Paulsen follows fifteen-year-old Carl through a single school year that manages to pack in first…