SUN KEEP RISING by Kristen R. Lee is an insightful young adult novel that interrogates the double-standard between (teen) mothers and (teen) fathers while also having the levity of following a teenage girl trying to make it through life and grow up a little bit at a time. B’Once feels like a real teenager; she’s being confronted with the injustices of the adult world way too early and knows certain decisions are wrong, yet still makes these poor decisions impulsively without thinking it through or thinking to ask for help. This quick novel paints an insightful look at how systemic poverty is often cyclical and impacts everyone involved, perhaps in vastly different ways.