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In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace of killing and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.

Five children who are the offspring of supernatural criminals and who have special abilities of their own leave their isolated tropical home and head to the city of Estero, where they hope to find their parents and the treasure they hid years ago.

"The novel explores both personal grief in the face of family loss and collective grief in the face of climate crisis, and how the only way to move forward is through friendship of all kinds"--publisher's website.

Sophie Foster wants answers. But after a lifetime of lies, sometimes the truth is the most dangerous discovery. Even the smallest secret comes with terrifying new responsibilities.And Sophie?s not the only one with blank spots in her past, or mysteries surrounding her family. She and her friends are part of something much bigger than they imagined?and their roles have already been chosen for them.Every clue drags them deeper into the conspiracy. Every memory forces them to question everything?especially one another. And the harder they fight, the more the lines blur between friend and enemy.Read less.

In 1960s San Francisco, aspiring artist Blake feels like she could finally find a place to belong, but her gender and multiracial heritage makes it next to impossible to land an internship that could put her on the map. To make matters worse, her family has been plagued with bad luck for centuries, and Blake soon starts to have ominous visions. When her aunt and uncle tell her about a long-last family heirloom, a legendary mirror, that could break the curse on her family, Blake embarks on a dangerous mission to find it.

Raven Roth and Garfield Logan cross paths when they both head to Nashville to meet Slade Wilson, a mysterious man who says he has the answers to all their questions. As they wait for Slade, the two spend more time together and slowly become friends and possibly something more. But when they are kidnapped by Slade, Raven's foster sister Max and Damien Wayne team up to help break them out of a mysterious facility.

Uriel Driscoll and his family all have superb singing voices, but they are cursed to lose their gifts at the height of their success, so when he is invited to the exclusive Aisling Academy, Uriel finds the curse is the least of his problems.

When a day at the beach turns strangely violent, siblings Lares and Angel and their friends Tom e and Tyler suddenly gain the ability to communicate with ocean animals who save them from being killed. The animals recruit the kids to help them fight climate change and global pollution by taking down a sinister oil tycoon looking to take over the world.

When a giraffe has tummy trouble, the Inside Scouts must go down a very long slide into the gut to find out what is stuck in the stomach. Includes fun facts about the guts.

Seventeen-year-old Malik Baron is ready to leave the foster care system he's been in since he was seven years old, when his mother disappeared he began to manifest uncontrollable powers. But fate has other plans for him and his foster brother Taye, when he meets his maternal grandmother, Mama Aya, who introduces him to his family's legacy and encourages him to attend Caiman University, the magical Black college his mother also attended. Believing she's still alive somewhere, he enrolls to find answers about what may have happened to her, and discovers a dark undercurrent in the magical community that dates back to the Haitian Revolution.