Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley

Summary: "Aza Ray Boyle is drowning in thin air. Since she was a baby, Aza has suffered from a mysterious lung disease that makes it ever harder for her to breathe, to speak-to live. So when Aza catches a glimpse of a ship in the sky, her family chalks it up to a cruel side effect of her medication. But Aza doesn't think this is a hallucination. She can hear someone on the ship calling her name."

After reading Becky's review, and also falling in love with the gorgeous cover, I had to read this book. 

It was wonderful and unique in a breath-taking (pun-intended?) way. It was a special book, the kind that you're always on the hunt for but aren't sure if you'll ever find.

309 pages