Author Description

Summer. Almost 18. Dali, punk rock...and him. After missing her best opportunity to attend a prestigious art school, 17-year-old Salvador Dali devotee Zero begins dating Mike, a drummer in an up-and-coming punk band. As their tentative relationship blooms, Zero confronts a ton of baggage holding her back from her art career: the majorly awkward drama with her former best friend, Jenn; her dad's excessive drinking and parents' ongoing fights; and one formerly successful art teacher who might just hold the keys to her future, or smash Z's hopes forever. When Mike's band gets a chance of lifetime to bust out of black hole that is Metro Phoenix, Zero must make a life-altering decision and answer the one question we all face at some point in our lives: Follow your own heart, or the heart of the one you love? ZERO was an ALA/YALSA Best Book. "I have never been so JEALOUS, completely drenched in jealousy, for a book character's life or lives as I am of Zero and Mike.... LOVED, LOVED this book----it is a keeper in my own personal library. Tom Leveen is now one of my favs!!!" ~ J, Goodreads "It's been awhile since I've given a book a 5 star rating, but after careful consideration, I honestly couldn't find anything wrong with the story nor anything I would change. ZERO was the kind of book that once started, I literally couldn't put it down." ~ Mia Searles, Goodreads