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Playlist: What We Saw At Night

It's the release day of What We Saw At Night, the first book in SohoTeen's new line! Written by Jacquelyn Mitchard, the story is an awesome-sounding contemporary with a classy cover.

Like the yearning, doomed young clones in Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, three teenagers with XP (a life-threatening allergy to sunlight) are a species unto themselves. As seen through the eyes of 16-year-old Allie Kim, they roam the silent streets, looking for adventure, while others sleep. When Allie's best friend introduces the trio to Parkour, the stunt-sport of running and climbing off forest cliffs and tall buildings (risky in daylight and potentially deadly by darkness), they feel truly alive, equal to the "daytimers."

On a random summer night, while scaling a building like any other, the three happen to peer into an empty apartment and glimpse an older man with what looks like a dead girl. A game of cat-and-mouse ensues that escalates through the underground world of hospital confinement, off-the-grid sports, and forbidden love. Allie, who can never see the light of day, discovers she's the lone key to stopping a human monster.

To celebrate, Jacquelyn swung by with the playlist for What We Saw At Night!

  • Shake It, by Metro Station
  • I Feel Pretty/But Unpretty, Glee Cast
  • Me and Bobbie McGee, by Janis Joplin
  • Don't Fear the Reaper, by Blue Oyster Cult
  • Sweeter, by Gavin DeGraw
  • Everybody Talks, by Neon Trees
  • Claire de Lune, by Debussy
  • Vincent, by Don McLean
  • Un Bel Di Vedremo (From Madame Butterfly), by Puccini
  • Make Them Hear You, by Dwayne Thomas from Ragtime (Three Mo' Tenors)
  • Up on the Roof, by the Persuasions
  • I Walk the Line, by Johnny Cash
  • Cherish, by The Association
  • Caroline, No, by the Beach Boys
  • Please Let Me Wonder, by The Beach Boys
  • Appalachian Spring, by Aaron Copland
  • Born to Run, by Bruce Springsteen

Considering today is the release day, you should find a copy, read it, and then listen to this excellent playlist!