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Room to Dream is Kelly Yang’s third book in her Mia Tang/Front Desk series. It shares Mia’s current experiences as a seventh grader navigating friendship challenges and boyfriend drama. Mia also returns to China in 1995 with her parents after being absent for five years. While she cherishes the time with family, Mia wonders about the changes that “progress” is making. The big chains are “swallowing up” the small mom-and-pop businesses. Having been made aware of these changes an ocean away, when Mia returns to California, she notices that ethnic shops are closing in favor of hotel and restaurant chains. When Vacation Rentals offers to阅读更多→

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Told in three parts, The Leopard Behind the Moon is written like an oral legend. Mayonn Paasewe-Valchev sets her tale in Sesa—a faraway place amid the marula trees where a group of people live in a village with strict laws about not going out at night or opening the magical door that protects them all. 然而, on the three-year anniversary of his father’s death, ten-year-old Ezomo sees the leopard that killed his father and feels compelled to follow it. His foolhardiness involves two of his friends: Muja and Chimama, and the three have quite an adventure.  Ezomo discovers that although the night is dark and阅读更多→

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Justina Ireland explores the notion of unfairness in her novel for middle grade readers, Ophie的鬼魂.  Readers will accompany Ireland on this justice-seeking journey as she asks important questions: How do we live, 生存, and thrive in a system that is unjust? How do we remain strong and unbent, 愿意做正确的事, even when it puts our own comfort and lives at risk? What are we willing to put on the line in the name of justice that is denied to us? How do we grieve when the ghosts of our loss appear in the everyday suffering of those around us? As阅读更多→

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故事发生在里弗顿, 华盛顿, Jay’s Gay Agenda by Jason June follows the life of Jay Collier, a young man who feels alone in his difference. 一个非常有条理的清单制造者, 杰伊是一个统计狂人, 数学家, and reality tv aficionado who can recite the MTV, VH1, 和Bravo电视台的节目安排. He is also an award-winning hoedown costumier and a self-proclaimed “inexperienced and getting-desperate gay virgin” (60). Jay’s life grows more complicated when his ride-or-die best friend, 陆Fuhrman, goes into “Heterosexual Hookup Mode.” While Lu experiences various milestones with her boyfriend, 芯片, Jay feels abandoned and like he’s living in quarantine. 然后，他的妈妈升职了阅读更多→

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Because of her parents’ arguing at home, racist comments and insensitivity from classmates at school, 应激性焦虑, and the typical horrors of high school, Quinn Jackson keeps a journal filled with lists.  某种应对机制, her lists serve to calm her mind, 提供一种专注感, 给她打个粉底.  She also lists her goals and dreams, her fears and worries.  Her journal contains her feelings when she doesn’t know how to express them out loud. When her journal turns up missing and she instead has a red-covered spiral that belongs to Carter Bennett, Quinn determines that Carter must have阅读更多→

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The author of A Love Hate Thing, Whitney D. Grandison has written a new book entitled The Right Side of Reckless. 以阿克伦为背景, 俄亥俄州, this latest work features several characters to which readers might relate as well as multiple morals about authoring our own life stories and the power of revision and second chances in that process. 因人身攻击被判缓刑, seventeen-year-old Guillermo Lozano calls himself the Patron Saint of Fuckups. 虽然他脾气不好, Guillermo is determined to shed his reputation as a wild, 无所畏惧的, and selfish delinquent to find a new life and a sense of belonging in Briar Pointe and阅读更多→

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Known as the lonely girl who writes computer code, sixteen-year-old Xia Chan is offered a once in a lifetime opportunity to participate in an incubator program for gifted young programmers. As a young tech prodigy, Xia has developed a predictive outcomes application (app) she calls Wiser. 因为这项技术, she has been targeted by the Foundry, an institute run by Lars Lang in Silicon Valley. Only twenty youth are accepted for this all-expense paid experience. 一年, they live on campus in the San Francisco Bay area and compete to be that year’s Founder. Whoever wins will receive “one million dollars in seed阅读更多→