Having been raised by her grandparents, Maria (Ri) Fernández has a lot of questions: Why did her mother abandon her? Why is Grandma so cold to their Mexican American neighbors? 为什么这家人不说西班牙语? 奶奶为什么要保守秘密? Wishing to “be enough” in Grandma’s eyes and yearning to study journalism and become a writer—not the doctor or engineer that Grandma wants—Ri feels like an outsider in her own life.  She is tired of everyone else telling her what’s best for her without regard for what she wants. Estranged from her Mexican identity—mostly due to her grandmother’s insistence about the sacrifices she has阅读更多→

黑暗, 可怕的, 和迷人的, The 凯莉·李·贝克的《皇冠登录welcome》 is Book One in a planned duology. 在第一期中, Baker writes the story of an angry biracial girl—任 Scarborough—who is trying to find out where she belongs. This feeling of being half and not whole, as well as the label foreigner haunts 任, 跟随她从伦敦出发, 英格兰, 她在那里扮演死神, to Japan where 任 was born a Shinigami. 在这两个角色中, 任, who is a descendent of darkness—made not of flesh and blood but of Death and Time—works for Death. This servitude is supposed to be sacred,阅读更多→

Set in the fictional country of Mariposa, The Shanthi Sekaran的《welcome皇冠地址》 tells the story of several twelve-year-old middle schoolers who attend Marble Hill Preparatory (MHP) Academy.  When Muki Krishnan spots Dragonflies—a type of spy drone—monitoring the neighborhood of Oceanview and suddenly hears people talking about moths versus butterflies, 他知道奇怪的事情正在发生, so he is glad to have his best friend Fabi Calderón by his side. Fabi is smart, funny, genuine, great at soccer, and immune to what the world thinks. Unlike Tinley Schaedler and others whose families have ancestors from Mariposa, the two friends are on scholarship to attend MHP,阅读更多→

A magical and enchanting tale of adventure, The 《welcome皇冠地址》,R.A. 塞尔瓦托 and Erika Lewis will likely intrigue readers of Christopher Paolini or Anne McCaffrey. Besides a story about finding one’s self, 塞尔瓦托 and Lewis tell a story about love, 忠诚, 还有其他值得为之奋斗的事情. Seventeen-year-old Maggie and Griffin are both orphans trying to find their place in the world. Just as Griffin must decide if his place is with the corpulent and greedy King Umbert serving as his champion: “Sir Griffin, 强大的下水道杀手”(92), Maggie must determine whether she owes allegiance to Xavier, 魔术师,也许还有阅读更多→

五年级的安东尼·乔普林, 又名蚁, is afraid of confrontation but confident in his card playing skills and kind to his friends. He is also trying to discover where and how he fits into the “tough guy” image and whether he can “be a lion,贾马尔的哥哥泰姬说. Ant is further confused by girls, in particular, Shirley Heyward. How she smiles, talks, and laughs makes Ant’s skin tingle. “Ant doesn’t know what was prettier—Shirley’s smile, her brown fingers as they worked the deck, or the sound of the cards as she made a perfect shuffle” (193). 现在蚂蚁的哥哥亚伦是阅读更多→

M的读者.T. Anderson and Ben Oliver will likely appreciate Sacha Wunsch’s recent release, Lies My Memory Told Me. This dystopian thriller follows the story of quiet, sixteen-year-old Nova Reynolds and her friends Andi and Kade as they work to solve the mystery of what Experion Enterprises is attempting with their new technology called Enhanced Memories. Enhanced Memories (EM) are originally created to be “nothing but good,” a magical solution to safely giving people access to experiences to enhance their quality of life: travel without the expense, a lived experience that delivers empathy and nuances of living another life, and ultrarealistic entrainment without the risk阅读更多→

Living Ghosts and Mischievous 怪物 is a collection of 32 chilling American Indian stories assembled into five chapters: Ghosts, 精神, 女巫, 怪物, 和《welcome皇冠地址》. Written and selected by Dan Sasuweh Jones from the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma, the book is artfully illustrated by Weshoyot Alvitre from the Tongva tribe of Southern California. 从这些故事中, readers will learn that the spirit world, 根据印度文化, 用手势和我们交流. Reading these signs may encourage us to carefully consider our future actions. Readers will also come to understand that languages, 仪式, and governments can differ greatly from tribe to tribe and region to阅读更多→

保拉·蔡斯的《皇冠登录welcome》 follows the story of a group of black teenagers who are accepted to a program for disadvantaged youth called Style High. 由Flexx Unlimited赞助, a hip-hop media company owned and operated by Marshall and Manita Johnson, Style High gives budding fashion designers some real experience working up concepts for approval, 利用他们的灵感, and being ready for anything the fashion world might throw at them. So when fourteen-year-old Marigold Johnson’s best friend Justice Freeman gets accepted, Marigold decides she wants to work at Flexx for the summer.  毕竟,她的父母拥有这家公司. 虽然她的父母是阅读更多→