In this propulsive memoir from Achut Deng and Keely Hutton, inspired by a harrowing New York Times article, Don’t Look Back tells a powerful story showing both the ugliness and the beauty of humanity, and the power of not giving up.
It’s 2021, and the Taliban have regained power in Afghanistan. Parvana and Shauzia, the brave protagonists of The Breadwinner, must now flee to escape new dangers from an old enemy.
When signs of the eight ajogun begin to appear, Simi teams up with the corrupt trickster god Esu to stop the demon warlords before they enter the human realm and ruin humankind.
An Ownvoices, Gender-bent Retelling Of The Three Musketeers, In Which A Girl With A Chronic Illness Trains As A Musketeer And Uncovers Secrets, Sisterhood, And Self-love. Tania De Batz Is Most Herself With A Sword In Her Hand. Everyone In Town Thinks Her Near-constant Dizziness Makes Her Weak, Nothing But A Sick Girl; Even Her Mother Is Desperate To Marry Her Off For Security. But Tania Wants To Be Strong, Independent, A Fencer Like Her Father–a Former Musketeer And Her Greatest Champion. Then Papa Is Brutally, Mysteriously Murdered. His Dying Wish? For Tania To Attend Finishing School. But L’acad Mie Des Mari Es, Tania Realizes, Is No Finishing School. It’s A Secret Training Ground For A New Kind Of Musketeer: Women Who Are Socialites On The Surface, But Strap Daggers Under Their Skirts, Seduce Men Into Giving Up Dangerous Secrets, And Protect France From Downfall. And They Don’t Shy Away From A Swordfight. With Her Newfound Sisters At Her Side, Tania Feels For The First Time Like She Has A Purpose, Like She Belongs. But Then She Meets Tienne, Her First Target In Uncovering A Potential Assassination Plot. He’s Kind, Charming, And Breathlessly Attractive–and He Might Have Information About What Really Happened To Her Father. Torn Between Duty And Dizzying Emotion, Tania Will Have To Lean On Her Friends, Listen To Her Own Body, And Decide Where Her Loyalties Lie…or Risk Losing Everything She’s Ever Wanted. This Debut Novel Is A Fierce, Whirlwind Adventure About The Depth Of Found Family, The Strength That Goes Beyond The Body, And The Determination It Takes To Fight For What You Love.
A riveting, magical escapade about finding friendship and the courage to set yourself free against all odds.
Before Greta Thunberg there was Severn Cullis-Suzuki, whose 1992 Earth Summit speech made her known as “the girl who silenced the world for five minutes.
Lonely Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she enjoys caring for injured animals, but her budding friendship with Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, emboldens Oriol, an aspiring writer, to open up and create a world of words for herself.
Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather’s proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez reaches out to her estranged biological father–who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador and the eccentric extended family of wrestlers she has never met, bringing Adela closer to understanding the expansive definition of family.
“Catalina can’t wait for the upcoming school talent show! Along with some of her classmates, they decide to rock out and form a band for the big day. But Catalina has some…specific ideas on how the band should look and sound. Can Catalina learn to be part of the band, or will she find herself working on a solo act?”–
Sharlot Citra is whisked from Los Angeles to her mother’s native Indonesia, where she finds herself fake dating the son of one of the wealthiest families in Indonesia, and she is surprised when she actually starts to fall in love with the boy, the country, and the big family she never knew before.