Barbed Wire Between Us Teen & Young Adult Fiction on Runaways Is a button just a

Is a button just a button

Outside the towering stone walls that surround them is a limitless

it’s called a Tricky Turnaround

and now he’s about to start high school at LA’s prestigious Saint John the Baptist Academy

but only if she can master her untamed gift

Barbed Wire Between Us Teen & Young Adult Fiction on Runaways Is a button just a* Starred review from Kirkus * Starred review from Publishers Weekly * Kirkus: The Most Anticipated Children's Books of Spring 2026 A powerful reverso poem about two girls separated by barbed wire and 80 years of history Barbed Wire Between Us is a powerful reverso poem that tells two deeply resonant stories across time. It begins with a Japanese American girl sent to an internment camp in Oklahoma during World War II. Read in reverse, it reveals the